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NEXT WEEK, 40 young
people will begin a 15-week
national tour across Canada
to talk to teenagers about
issues relevant to them. The

group is called Generation
2000.

He came to the conclusion that
younger people were not properly
represented in the constitutional
process and that this indicated a
lack of youth involvement in
many important issues in Canada.

Barnard established Generation
2000 in order to promote the idea
of youths assuming an active rote
«qin deciding the future for
themselves in Canada. It was
designed to encourage com-
munication between youths and to
motivate positive action towards
the problems they face.

Teenagers are most likely to
want to talk to people who they
feel can relate to them and their
issues. Issues for teens change
over the years; therefore, it is
significant that the tour members
are between the ages of 18 and 25,
so that the concerns raised are not
totally foreign to them.

Most young people have many
concerns about their future,
whether it be employment, educa-
tion, sex, racism, drug and alcohol

» By Margaret Bryant
» ZAP! Contributor «

And West Vancouver's John
Toppings will be one of the Gen-
eration 2000 team members
bringing their message to the
North Shore.

The organization was estab-
lished in 1993 when the Spicer
Commission conducted a consti-
tutional hearing across Canada.
Twenty-three-year-old Robert
Barnard attended a hearing in
Toronto and was surprised to find
that he was the only participant
under 35 years old.

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JOHN TOPPINGS

abuse, the environment, or con-
cerns about governmental issues,

These are all issues that many
teenagers would like to have a
chance to talk about. Generation
2000 encourages teens to talk
about their problems and tuke ac-
tion to solve them,

The tour members will en-
courage young people not to feel
that the problems they experience
are isolated to their region of
Canada, and to realize that in
order to work towards solutions
they should interact with their
peers all over Canada.

Astounding
crobatics

IT'S NOT

unusual for teenagers to feel

that they are left out of the political pro-
cess, even though they will have to live with
the results of decisions made in Victoria or
Ottawa, How politically aware are you? Do
you believe that you bave any contribution
to be made to important national deci-

sions?

Sratry sie

44 The team members are trained
during an intensive three-week
session. 99

The team members are trained
during an intensive three-week
session where they are taught basic
acting techniques, public and
media relations, workshop
facilitation and current issues.

During these sessions the team
members are able to get ac-
quainted before their 15-week
tour together.

After graduating from second-
ary school in West Vancouver,
Toppings went on to the Univer-
sity of Owlawa, where he recently
graduated with a degree in Politi-
cal Science. After a brief visit
home, he joined the Generation
2000 team back east.

Toppings said Generation 2000's
goal is ‘‘to get young people out
of the realm of just talking about
issues and concerns and to en-
courage them to go through the

neat

motions and to be able to put
together a project to achieve a
final goal.’’

The tour will begin on Feb. 7 in
B.C. The team members will then
be split up into groups of four
and will travel to high schools and
community centres all over the
province, including some North
Shore stops.

The team will be in B.C. until
Feb. 12, 1994, when they move on
to another province.

For more information about
Generation 2000 and to find out
when they will be in this area cail
1-800-565-5847.

Margaret Bryant is an 18-
year-old Sutherland secondary
student who is in Grade 12. She is
interested in cycling, skiing and
reading.

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