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From YouTube: NOV 23 2022 Statements Roly Russell
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
boundaries
will
come
in.
Thank
you.
Speaker,
I,
had
the
privilege
this
morning
to
meet
with
BC's
youth
Council
and
as
well
as
the
premier
special
advisor
for
Youth
and
I.
Certainly
love
listening
to
those
bright
and
open
minds,
but
I
hear
concern
too.
Last
year
a
large
study
published
in
the
Lancet,
for
example,
identified
the
84
percent
of
respondents
16
to
25
were
worried
about
climate
change.
A
The
burden
of
responsibility
for
these
climate
disasters
is
heavy
and
we're
asking
or
making
our
youth
to
carry
this
with
us
and
for
us,
and
yet
the
majority
often
feel
ignored
or
dismissed
as
Carolyn
Hickman
put
it.
There
is
a
general
othering
of
Children
and
Youth
in
society
that
same
Lancet
paper
noted
that
quote
these
psychological
stressors
threatened
the
health
and
well-being
and
could
just
be
could
be
construed
as
morally
injurious
and
unjust.
A
Concurrent
with
globally
distributed
passionate
demonstrations
around
climate
action,
we
see
others
such
as
the
uprising
in
support
of
Justice
in
Iran
for
Masa
amini.
These
actions
provide
voice
to
the
empathetic.
These
choices
made
with
self-awareness
and
a
fight
against
hopelessness
are
hope,
punk
in
action.
Similarly,
my
discussion
this
morning
revolved
around
giving
youth
a
voice
to
proper
to
be
proper
advisors
for
us
legislators.
Here
different
scales,
parallel
challenges.
A
Bravery
and
strength
hope,
Punk,
isn't
ever
about
submission
or
acceptance
It's
about
standing
up
and
fighting
for
what
you
believe
in
it's
about
standing
up
for
other
people,
it's
about
demanding
a
better
Kinder
world
and
truly
believing
that
we
can
get
there
if
we
care
about
each
other
as
hard
as
we
possibly
can,
with
every
drop
of
power
in
our
little
hearts,
and
that
in
this
world
of
brutal
cynicism
and
nihilism
being
kind
is
a
political
act.
End
quote:
our
job
is
to
help.