For the first time, MPs born in the 21st century are headed to the Hill [Video]

Canadians elected a total of 112 new MPs this week, including for the first time a handful born this century.

Three incoming Liberal MPs — Jake Sawatzky in B.C., and Amandeep Sodhi and Fares Al Soud in Ontario — were all born in the early 2000s.

Sawatzky, a 25-year-old master’s student in counselling psychology, upset longtime NDP MP Peter Julian. 

Sawatzky told CBC Radio’s On The Coast that he wanted to get into politics to address mental health and addictions issues.

“There’s a lot of people that just really aren’t receiving the treatment they really desperately need and, I was thinking, one person can only do so much — this is more of a policy thing now,” he told host Gloria Macarenko.

WATCH | First-time Liberal candidate unseats longtime NDP MP Peter Julian: Jake Sawatzky, a young master’s student in counselling psychology, was part of a red wave in Metro Vancouver as he defeated longtime NDP incumbent …