Title: Youth Leading on Issues that Matter to Them: Climate, Poverty and Affordability
Organizer: The Tamarack Institute
Date: July 20, 2022
This webinar panel of young national researchers and advocates will discuss what they hear, see and think about with their peers, focusing on climate, poverty and affordability issues and how we can and should address these challenges simultaneously.
This webinar took place in English with simultaneous French interpretation. Click here to access the French recording: [ Ссылка ]
Speakers:
• Natasha Pei, Tamarack Institute ([ Ссылка ])
• Mike Des Jardins, Tamarack Institute ([ Ссылка ])
• Haleema Ahmed, Student, Biomedical Sciences and Research, York University
• Manvir Bhangu, Founder and Executive Director of Laadliyan (laad-lee-ah), Celebrating & Empowering Daughters ([ Ссылка ])
• Sydney Campbell, Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto
• Fadumo Diriye, Senior Data Analyst, Youthful Cities ([ Ссылка ])
Have questions? Contact Natasha Pei (natasha@tamarackcommunity.ca)
Overview of webinar:
0:00 Land acknowledgement
1:28 Introduction to webinar and speakers
5:40 Question 1: What’s arising from the recent reports, the discussions you’ve had with other youth throughout Canada, the recommendations/themes – what’s coming up in relation to poverty, equity, and climate? (Natasha Pei)
6:07 Manvir Bhangu, responding as a co-author of Canada’s first State of Youth Report in 2022 ([ Ссылка ])
15:46 Sydney Campbell, responding as a collaborator on Children First Canada’s 2022 Raising Canada Report ([ Ссылка ])
22:20 Haleema Ahmed, responding as a member of the Prime Minister’s Youth Council in 2022: ([ Ссылка ])
24:41 Fadumo Diriye, responding as a senior data analyst at Youthful Cities ([ Ссылка ])
29:24 Question 2: How can young people be effectively, authentically and meaningfully engaged in supporting either understanding these issues more or tackling these issues? (Mike Des Jardins)
29:40 Haleema Ahmed’s response
35:17 Manvir Bhangu’s response
40:01 Sydney Campbell’s response
42:57 Fadumo Diriye’s response
45:30 Questions from the audience (Mike Des Jardins)
45:45 Question 3 (for Fadumo Diriye): If the average monthly deficit is $750, how are young people continuing to live in the 27 cities examined? Is the deficit being bridged through debt, family transfers, depletion savings? Has a similar study been conducted in smaller cities? (Fadumo Diriye)
47:09 Question 4: How do you think social media can be involved in this kind of work of engaging young people? (Sydney Campbell)
48:28 Question 5: How can we engage non-token youth? Those diverse youth and have them participating. Are there other strategies? (Manvir Bhangu and Haleema Ahmed)
51:31 Question 6: How do youth want to be engaged in climate action? (Haleema Ahmed)
52:45 Question 7: Income inequality has one of the most severe impacts of people’s ability to face the consequences of the current climate crisis. The Green Resilience final report had a basic income as a primary recommendation. Do you feel that a basic income would be a useful policy solution? (Manvir Bhangu)
54:30 Closing remarks (Natasha Pei)
