Will the NDP help youth?

WITH AN NDP majority
government in power,
what can youth expect?

By irwin Oostindie
North Shore Youth Council

Cheaper bus service, reduced
tuition fees for colleges - and
universities, fully-funded
neighborhood youth centres, an
ongoing community. youth
program grants system, more

. social issues in our high schcol.

- curriculum, more money for
"our schools, plus more?

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spend tons of money that they
don’t have to help the sectors
(youth, women, seniors, etc.).

Any changes that we will
want them to make will only
come from young people de-
manding these changes.

An example of this is the
funding issue for youth pro-
grams in B.C.

Currently there is virtually
no money for youth groups to
continue with programs or ser-
vices for their peers.

The B.C. Youth Advisory
Council (controlled by pro-
Social Credit youth appointees)
hands out a limited number of
one-time grants for projects to
Start up.- But. for youth pro-
grams that need to survive year
after year ... there’s no money.
-/That’s called ‘‘cure fund-

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ing’’: paying the rent, staff
people, the phone bill, etc. for
a project.

Perhaps the B.C. govern-

ment under an NDP leadership
will see the importance of help-'
ing young people in this pro-
vince.
- We need services just like
senior citizens do, and we need
places and programs designed
for us.

Youth newspapers, youth
centres ‘‘by. youth for youth,’
conferences for us to discuss
issues important to us, and
more.
ideas? .

Will the NDP government
kelp us? Only if we demand it.

_By writing letters to our MLAs
‘and phoning -their : offices we

can force them to support us.

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