Young voters helped give Trudeau a majority in 2015. The policy decade that followed was not good for them, as many now realize

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All Canadians are feeling the stress of chronic slow economic growth, high prices, unaffordable housing and faltering collective confidence in our future, but young people are especially affected. We older folk are obviously sympathetic to their worsening plight over the past decade. Everyone is. But it’s also best not to forget young people’s support was key to propelling Justin Trudeau to an unexpected majority in 2015. Our generation’s job is to say, as our parents said to us: “We told you so!”

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Despite their elders’ advice, young people voted in droves for Trudeau. Abacus found youth preferred the Liberals to the Conservatives by more than two to one. And they were enthusiastic: according to Elections Canada, voter turnout of 18- to 24-year-olds jumped from 38.8 per cent in 2011 to 57.1 per cent in 2015.

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