Youth in Transition

Brigette DePape

 

2011

 

 

2015

 

Youth Vote Campaigner for the Council of Canadians, calls on young Canadians to vote in the next federal election.

 

Former Senate page Brigette DePape says she does not regret holding up a sign reading "Stop Harper" during the 2011 throne speech, a stunt that made national headlines. More than three years after DePape became a household name, she is on a mission to encourage young people to better engage in politics. She's part of the 2015 Game-Changers Tour, which calls on Canadian youth to vote in the next federal election. 

 

"Nearly two thirds of young people did not vote in the last election,"I think it's time to break that vicious cycle of feeling like politicians aren't listening to us and so we're not voting."

 

This young lady has guts to be able to stand up to the Canadian Government in it's own house. Unfortunately it is not just the youth that are disenfranchised with the political fortunes in Canada.



 



Official Turnout Rate in Canadian Federal General Elections
1945 to 2011

 

(notice the downward trend)

 

This blogger has for many decades been less than satisfied with the political offerings in Canada and has more often than not voted against someone rather than for someone.

 

I was first introduced to politics at a very young age when Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker won the 1957 election.

 

In the House of Commons, Diefenbaker was repeatedly a candidate for the PC leadership and in 1956, on his third attempt, he became the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1957, he led the Tories to their first electoral victory in 27 years. (I should mention that at that time I was just 6 years old).

 

What, you may ask was a six year old doing listening to a politician. I was not listening to the politician, I was listening to the man. Not for what he was saying, or what party politics he was talking about (remember I was just 6 years old), rather, I was listening to this mans passion about what he was saying.

 

And that, ladies and gentlemen, and the youth of today, is what is missing from Canadian politics, Passion.

  

 

 

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