An all-candidates forum took place at Mount Royal College today. It is very clear that this young crowd is very aware and engaged. They asked about the economy, climate change, Afghanistan, corruption, the environment, Aboriginal issues, the cost of post-secondary education, and more. Judging from the students' questions and the knowledge and compassion behind them, Calgary has a bright future.
There is a voting initiative supported by MRC students called www.YVote.org that encourages people to become informed and vote. "Y-Vote was started in 2008 by a group of youth who were frustrated with the number of youth turning out on voting day for the Alberta Provincial Election. This election had the lowest voter turnout in provincial history." There are lots of people working hard to change that!
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Thanks for helping to get out the young vote. My hope for the future is the young folks;they 'get it'. My other hope for the future is the Green party. Its nice to work for a party which places the planet before the politics. I keep reminding people that ignoring the environmental deficit is like ignoring the financial deficit;eventually the 'bills' must be paid and we now see clearly what happens when too much debt is taken on. Actually the environmental problems ARE economic problems especially for the younger generation another good reason you 'young' folk need to take control from the fogies. If we start the change over now these young folks will find lots of great new 'green' jobs.
I think you really have a chance. Conservatives are 'out of touch with reality'. Liberals have a decent plan [taken from the Green platform] but they don't present it well and they haven't defended it at all when they had the chance. NDP talks green but I think they can't get past the old left/right divide. They are too busy defending old style jobs to really see the future green jobs.
Kitty Dunn
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