Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP’s bill to lower voting age blocked by Conservatives, Liberals
Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Taylor Bachrach is frustrated by Liberal MPs who voted against his bill to lower the voting age to 16 after it was a recommendation that came out of the Liberal government’s own consultations with youth.
Between 2020 and 2021 the federal government engaged with more than 900 youth across the country and published the results in Canada’s First State of Youth Report. The feedback was distilled down to 28 recommendations in six different categories. “And risk is that when you consult people and you engage people, but you aren’t willing to implement their ideas, it creates frustration and cynicism. That takes us in the opposite direction we need to be going.”
Senator Marilou McPhedran is sponsoring a similar bill right now, and it is currently at its second reading. Bachrach is hopeful that bill will make its way to the House of Commons one day and he and other supporters of the bill will have another chance to make their case.
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