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This election was supposed to be about restoring hope for young Canadians. What happened? (archive.is)
submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/canada
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the plight of young people has faded into the background, as the trade war with the U.S. takes centre stage in Canada’s federal election. Meanwhile, political parties have said more about protecting seniors’ retirements than helping young Canadians get a head start.

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New polling conducted by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail and CTV News suggests that while the trade war is the top issue for Canadians 55 years and older, the cost of living is the priority for younger Canadians. Only one in 10 Canadians polled under the age of 35 said the trade was their main issue.

Canadians under the age of 35 are also more likely to trust Mr. Poilievre (38 per cent) – who has made the cost of living a central focus of his campaign – than Mr. Carney (26 per cent) to help young people.

The trade war has “taken the oxygen out of the room,” said Mike Moffatt, founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative, a project housed in the University of Ottawa’s Institute for the Environment with the stated goal of reviving Canada’s urban middle class.

“Other than housing, there has been a real absence of any policy to help struggling young people.”

From: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/federal-election/article-federal-election-2025-young-voters-housing-affordability-economy/

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[–] Thepotholeman 31 points 21 hours ago (26 children)

I would say that any young person thinking that Pierre is going to make your life better is so fucking full of cope. Pierre won't make your life better. More and more young people have part time jobs, no benefits, and are struggling to find a home and if they do it's an old outdated piece of shit going for half a million.

Atleast the liberals and NDP have been giving them dental coverage, pharmacare coverage and affordable, quality childcare. The liberals and NDP are also proposing plans that will help FIRST time home buyers buy new, Pierre is suggesting to "axe the tax" on ALL new homes without limit of how many you can buy. (Rich people will buy them all).

The liberals plan to do as we did after ww2 is the proven method to do this, and for young people looking for a home or a career, this is how we do it. This housing program will generate hundreds of thousands of trades positions that we desperately need and they pay decently. Using new technologies and new methods while also cutting development fees.

Idk, just baffles me that young 20 somethings are talking about how Pierre is their guy because..... They say life has been harder then ever? When those 20 somethings have only just began to enter the work force enmasse? Like I'm sorry but these kids were in elementary school when Trudeau got elected and every day since their parents have been paying for less and less of their stuff. They are still under their parents insurance if they're in college or university and it's just wild to me that they would actually think this.

Maybe it's them scrolling social media endlessly and seeing random fucking people there repeating "lost liberal decade" or "things have never been worse" (when they have in fact been much much worse).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

There was someone on CBC Radio discussing this yesterday and they pointed heavily to how effectively conservative talking points are being pushed online by young social media influencers. Some unrelated research has shown that the beginning and end of a lot of political information younger people are receiving is on social media. Heck, I saw one article discussing how a lot of young people go to TikTok first when they want to learn how to fix something. What a stupid resource to go to for something like that, so if people are trying to figure out how to change a tire on TikTok they’re certainly also going there for their political information.

The seemingly obvious answer is that the other parties should be working more heavily on putting out counter messaging on these channels, but the way the algorithms work these people won’t even see the content because the algorithm ignores it and only provides further polarization of ideas.

[–] Thepotholeman 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

They should be indeed, but also where the fuck are the parents of these kids and who raised them? Remember growing up and being told "you can't believe everything you see on the internet" and now we got those kids who were told that raising kids who are perpetually online and consuming endless brain rot? I even get stuck on an Instagram reel to some dipshit spouting about how things are so bad and the liberals are bad and that Pierre will fix it.... And like... This is a RANDOM FUCKHEAD talking. No credentials, now proof, no statistics.

Get your kids off of social media and make them think objectively

[–] honc 1 points 7 hours ago

I recommend reading The Anxious Generation - it is extremely hard as a parent to control phone use (especially when they’re not banned at schools), and the internet today is much more engagement driven than the internet before phones. As a parent, I will be doing my best with my own kids to teach them about the dangers of social media, but it’ll take societal change to really address this problem.

I strongly believe that the younger cohort supporting conservatives is social media driven.

[–] corsicanguppy 2 points 9 hours ago

where the fuck are the parents of these kids

Working?

and who raised them?

TV and tiktok?

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