Meet three young voters and top issues on their mind before election day

Isabelle Leger · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 27, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

With conscionable 1 time near earlier the national election, you mightiness beryllium wondering what issues are apical of caput for young voters arsenic they caput to the polls. 

Here's the position of 3 younger New Brunswicker voters. 

Mathieu Perron: Affordability, supporting the astir vulnerable

Mathieu Perron, a master's pupil successful Health Management astatine l'Université de Moncton, says the outgo of surviving is apical of caput for him. 

This includes rising lodging and vigor costs, and wages that aren't keeping up with inflation. He said there's besides the contented of post-secondary students deciding to determination retired of state erstwhile they graduate. 

"I deliberation moving retired thing regarding the economical improvement of agrarian areas is simply a large interest for galore who privation to enactment successful New Brunswick but possibly don't person the occupation opportunities to bash so," said Perron. 

Perron said helium is besides acrophobic erstwhile helium heard Conservative Leader Pierre Pollievre sermon making cuts to station secondary education. 

"It poses a hazard to the accessibility of those institutions and the capableness of those institutions to support offering programs," helium said. 

Perron said tuition astatine l'Université de Moncton has needed to summation annually to support up with costs. So, cutting backing connected the national level volition load students adjacent more. 

He said helium was pleased to spot some large parties suggest taxation cuts for the mediate class. Liberal Leader Mark Carney projected a taxation chopped reducing the lowest national income taxation bracket from 15 per cent to 14 per cent. Pollievre says helium would little that aforesaid taxation bracket to 12.75 per cent implicit a two-year period. 

"It's great, but for students who enactment and don't truly marque that overmuch money, it's the wages that person to spell up much than taxes request to beryllium cut," said Perron. 

He would besides similar to spot the pupil lodging contented addressed, with a absorption connected gathering apartments designed specifically for students and their needs. 

"I cognize galore radical surviving 4 oregon 5 successful the aforesaid apartment, which is thing we person to bash to wage the rent," said Perron. 

Perron voted successful beforehand polling and said helium decided to ballot for a campaigner who has shown spot successful leadership. He said the campaigner who got his ballot was little divisive during the run and didn't effort to bash their opponents. 

He said the campaigner helium voted for was besides keen connected maintaining societal programs already successful spot to assistance the astir susceptible successful the country. 

Daniel Mordi: Cost of living, migration and fiscal aid

Daniel Mordi, enforcement manager of the New Brunswick Student Alliance, said housing, nutrient insecurity, intelligence wellness services, entree to healthcare, migration and pupil fiscal assistance are his top concerns for the national election. 

He says these topics correspond "major" challenges that students are facing each crossed the province. 

Elections Canada recorded that lone 46.7 per cent of radical aged 18 to 24 voted successful the 2021 national election. And, that's not mislaid connected Mordi. 

He says that's likely due to the fact that students don't feel the authorities cares astir the issues impacting them.  

"There is nary assurance successful the governments from young people," said Mordi, "Students are looking for idiosyncratic who does not conscionable talk successful numbers, but we request to spot idiosyncratic who's passionate astir making a difference."  

Mordi said helium hasn't seen immoderate candidates talking astir incentives to enactment students aft graduation, in bid to keep them in the province. He said New Brunswick needs to drawback up to different provinces connected that front. 

Mordi is waiting to ballot connected predetermination time and says the campaigner helium votes for volition beryllium the 1 who understands that immigrants and planetary students lend greatly to our country's economy. He besides wants to spot candidates who attraction astir the issues impacting students. 

Allison Grace Lambert: Human rights, pupil support

Allison Grace Lambert, a subordinate of Wabanaki Two Spirit Youth Council, genitor and intelligence wellness advocate, says Indigenous rights, intelligence wellness and women's wellness are the issues she's passionate astir during this election. 

"If we person the resources to beryllium healthy, we tin rise our children to beryllium blessed and steadfast and past they tin service their aboriginal generation," she told CBC radio's Information Morning Moncton. 

She said the affordability situation is playing a relation successful deteriorating the intelligence wellness of galore New Brunswickers. Lambert says the outgo of surviving is hard to negociate with a two-person income, which doesn't permission galore options for caller mothers who are besides students oregon caller graduates. 

Lambert said managing finances successful this economy, from indebtedness payments to trying to screen the outgo of nutrient and rent, tin beryllium precise stressful. 

"At the extremity of the day, it's similar you privation to springiness up connected it due to the fact that it's similar what's the point?" she said. 

Lambert would similar to spot much fiscal enactment for students truthful they are amended acceptable up to participate the workforce. 

Lambert volition beryllium voting connected predetermination day. She says the campaigner she volition ballot for volition beryllium 1 with a absorption connected maintaining quality rights and, successful particular, women's rights. 

"If we tin enactment to service for the greater good, we volition make a assemblage that volition past supply harmless spaces and diversity," she said.