The MP for Cape Breton-Canso says he’s created the riding’s first-ever group to advise on youth issues.
Mike Kelloway says a seven-member constituency youth council will help bring new ideas to the region.
Kelloway tells The Hawk it’s important to listen to what young people have to say.
“I think sometimes they’re misrepresented that they don’t want to be engaged, they don’t care, they’re not involved; my experience has been the exact opposite,” he says. “We have to provide opportunity- as a society and at least in my case as a Member of Parliament- to hear that kind of cross section of viewpoints that come from youth.”
Kelloway says it’s important to give them a chance to act on it, which is what members of this group will do.
He says he wanted to draw from as many different opinions as possible, so the group is gender-balanced and non-partisan.
“I firmly believe that good ideas (and) good policy comes from a diversified opinion and insight.”
Kelloway says he also made sure there was representation from communities across the riding.
He says that will help him get the fullest picture of what matters to the region’s young people.
