I would like to write a follow-up on my speech that I
presented in Smithers on June the 7th. As I had spoken on behalf of
the disenfranchised youth. I was asked if teaching politics in
school would make a difference. I said it would.
What I would like to add is that if we do teach it,
it has to be 100% unbiased and cover every political
party platform. This may be difficult to swallow but it has to be
all or nothing at all. There was also some discussion about
lowering the voting age. On this I have some mixed
feelings because, if we don't change the voting system
from its current system to a more proportional one, it won't matter
how young the voting age is, the youth still won't care to
participate. We want to know our vote matters and that has to
change first then we can look into bringing it into our
schools.
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