{"id":45341,"date":"2021-03-10T23:56:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T04:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=45341"},"modified":"2021-03-11T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:19:05","slug":"unbc-bc-young-liberals-seek-to-increase-youth-involvement-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/unbc-bc-young-liberals-seek-to-increase-youth-involvement-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"UNBC BC Young Liberals seek to increase youth involvement in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As vice president and director of outreach and communications of the UNBC BC Young Liberals (BCYL), Mark Dhillon strongly believes that youth voices play an important role in politics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat we are doing is representing youth interests and working with our politicians.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhillon explains the club\u2019s goal, \u201cwe are a group that started in 1991 to represent youth politics and liberal ideology in BC.\u201d The club is also present at other universities across BC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6139272\/unbc-faculty-association-strike\/\">strike <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and COVID-19 pandemic have given the group a slow start, but as Dhillon adds, the hope is to \u201cbuild a [greater] presence on campus.\u201d He hopes to be able to expand the club in the next coming months in order to begin the next academic year on a strong note.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat we are doing here isn't as big or as glorious...but what we are doing is representing youth interests and working with politicians so that when we as a generation have more power\u2026 and when these parties are trying to get our votes we will actually know how to converse in a political matter and bring forward our interests\u201d, explains Dhillon about the advantage that the club brings to those that get involved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhillon expresses, \u201ca lot of people say that politics is an old white man\u2019s game\u2026you see a lot of politicians and think\u2026maybe they are right.\u201d However, Dhilllon believes that opportunities, like the UNBC BCYL club, offer youth from all backgrounds the chance to change that narrative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on the UNBC BCYL, contact Luke Brbot at (250)617-5651 or Mark Dhillon at (250)617-6856.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the interview on CFUR-FM:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As vice president and director of outreach and communications of the UNBC BC Young Liberals (BCYL), Mark Dhillon strongly believes that youth voices play an important role in politics. \u201cWhat we are doing is representing youth interests and working with our politicians.\u201d Dhillon explains the club\u2019s goal, \u201cwe are a group that started in 1991&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":45329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,225],"tags":[],"radio":[238],"origine":[280,264,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45341"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=45341"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=45341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}