N.B news: Encouraging young people in New Brunswick to vote [Video]

The field director for a non-partisan, non-profit organization in New Brunswick says young people are engaged in politics and they want to be engaged.

“We are here in New Brunswick having face to face conversations and talking directly to as many young people as possible to make sure they have the information that they need to be able to vote,” said Maeve Sharkey in an interview with CTV’s Bruce Frisko on Friday. “They are engaged. They want to be engaged.”

Sharkey says New Majority, has been travelling to different campuses and other locations across the province where young people tend to meet up like parks, transit stops and farmers markets.

“What we found is that actually most people want to be engaged, but if they haven’t done it before they might not have the information that they need to follow through on that plan,” she said.

“So what we do in these conversations …