If you think today’s youth are uninvolved when it comes to matters of civic importance, then you don’t know jack.
Jack Campbell, a Rockridge Secondary graduate and second-year student at the University of Victoria, has recently landed a seat on the Prime Minister’s Youth Council.
The council is made up of a group of young Canadians who are tasked with providing advice to the prime minister and federal government regarding issues of importance.
“Personally, from the people I’ve talked to so far, it’s been mental health,” says Campbell after returning from a recent trip to Ottawa where the youth council met.
“I think that’s the thing that everybody on the council’s trying to hammer home, is that we need better resources and services for mental health, specifically for people in remote communities.”
Campbell’s passion is technology, he says, and his goal on youth council is to learn more about how technology can be used to help solve or aid the myriad issues they’re learning about.
“There’s a lot of room for improvement and I think technology can be a big solution in that, especially in getting access to people that otherwise would not have access,” he says.
As Jack rides out his two-year term on the youth council, which is currently made up of 21 youth from around the country, including Justin Charles Wong who also hails from West Vancouver, he encourages others to apply for the Prime Minister’s Youth Council as well.
“It’s been a really great opportunity for me to learn.”
Visit canada.ca/en/campaign/prime-ministers-youth-council.html for more information.
