Volume 118, Number 10 Dalhousie University, Halifax November 7, 1985 New Democrats speak out on youth issues By DAVID OLIE ting back, and now the feds are ~ - -~·
[email protected]!w joining them. It's a damn poor UNEMPLOYMENT AND way to convince the provinces to fear of the future are making contribute more to post young Canadians apathetic and secondary education," he says. cynical, says Howard McCurdy, McCurdy says another problem New Democratic MP for with the education system is its Windsor-Walkerville and chair of inherent discrimination against the NDP Task Force on Youth. certain people. The sense of immortality "Our education system is a among youth is gone, says middle-class system and it can be McCurdy. "When we were young very alienating for a whole range we had the feeling we could do of non-middle class social anything," he says. "The essen groups," he says. "We haven't yet tial message we've been receiving figured out how to get the child is that your perspective has ren of lower class families into the changed." education system." McCurdy and other members McCurdy says the idea of the of the Task Force made their Task Force grew out of a number remarks in a press conference on of practical concerns. Oct. 30 and at a meeting of inter "If I'm supposed to talk about ested students in the SUB that youth in Parliament it makes evening. sense that we talk to youth, to try "The way we see it, the youth of to do the best job we can for the world is in a state of crisis," them," he says.