‘It’s younger Canadians that are suffering’: Paul Kershaw on why Canada needs a new deal for young people

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A young family outside of their home in Edmonton, October 7, 2022. Amber Bracken/The Canadian Press.

UBC policy professor and founder of Generation Squeeze, Paul Kershaw, joins The Hub’s editor-at-large for business and economics, Theo Argitis, to explain the surprising demographic results from this election, which saw young people lean Conservative while their parents skewed Liberal. Paul argues that politicians have prioritized the financial insecurities of Boomers while ignoring the very real economic concerns of the Millennials and Gen Z, whose dreams of home ownership and long-term financial security remain wildly out of reach.

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