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.”
As a young person (<30), many older (50-75) people keep telling me its my only hope to vote conservative if I ever want to afford a home and have a good paying job. Present any opposition they’ll claim you’re following the lies and dooming yourself, and you are also now part of the problem in their eyes.
Any 30+ Canadian lived through the harper years and if they still can say the only hope is the conservative after that then I don’t trust their judgment. period.
I long for the day politic won’t be about weaponizing the dunning-krueger effect.
People hate of the liberals for housing costs but under Harper housing costs went up more then under JT
A 70+ conservative was just praising that harper lowered prices across the board, do you mean to tell me a conservative would lie?
Lmao I don’t think they actually understand that they are lying. They truly believe what they say