Juno News - April 28, 2019


An idea worth talking about： mandatory national service for Canadian youth


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In this episode, I discuss the idea of introducing mandatory national service for all young people in Canada. I talk about the benefits and drawbacks of such a system and why it would be a good thing for our society moving forward.

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00:00:00.000 there's an idea that I've been thinking about a lot lately that I think we need
00:00:14.040 to discuss more in Canada in fact we're hardly discussing it at all no politician
00:00:18.900 is putting it on the table and I think it's about time they do and that's the
00:00:23.620 idea of introducing some form of mandatory national service for all
00:00:28.480 young people in this country now right away when people hear the phrase
00:00:32.720 national service they think military conscription but it doesn't have to be
00:00:36.620 that there are a number of alternate versions in different countries where
00:00:40.600 they set up service and they say it's people around this age and you've got to
00:00:44.180 do two months or six months or whatever it is and it doesn't have to be military
00:00:48.100 for whatever reason you're interested in something different some sort of social
00:00:51.820 service sector some other department in the government and you can go volunteer
00:00:56.280 there you can learn skills you can go to a different place in your country a
00:00:59.640 different part of your country you can meet different people learn different
00:01:03.560 things because we're hearing more and more from people from all sort of
00:01:07.400 political backgrounds and all walks of life that they're concerned about our
00:01:11.240 social fabric our civil society they feel things are freeing left-wing people think
00:01:16.400 that this and that is the problem right-wing people point to these issues and say
00:01:20.440 there's a problem there and then apolitical people just point out hey why is it the
00:01:24.740 case that the kids are just sitting on the TV sitting on the couch watching TV all
00:01:28.880 day and on the iPad they're not getting out and you know living life look at the
00:01:33.120 statistics about volunteering for charities donating to charities membership and
00:01:37.800 organizations like the Rotary Club and so forth they're all on the decline
00:01:42.080 that's not good at all it's not good for our society moving forward and I don't
00:01:46.980 know if national service is something that I'll completely turn all of that around but
00:01:50.680 it's worth a shot Emmanuel Macron he actually campaigned on bringing this
00:01:55.420 back when he when he first became president now he watered it down he
00:01:58.800 wanted just military service and now he's changed it to allow military service and
00:02:03.280 then alternative service so people who don't want to go in the military can do
00:02:06.760 other things in government and I think that's fair and I think here in Canada
00:02:09.520 people wouldn't be happy with just military service but that's okay anything
00:02:14.320 that suggests that there are not just rights in Canada but there are
00:02:17.640 responsibilities as well responsibilities to your country to your
00:02:21.640 fellow citizen and so forth a greater sense of national cohesion now there's a
00:02:27.180 lot of details to figure out there's a lot of examples of how countries have
00:02:30.480 gotten it right and have gotten it wrong let's talk all through it form some
00:02:34.560 committee get an exploratory team forward look at the different things we could do
00:02:38.700 how long should it be what age should it be what should be eligible to be the
00:02:42.420 thing that they do let's talk it out I'll have strong views on the
00:02:45.900 particulars I guess once we get there I just want to see the conversation
00:02:49.680 started right now and I don't think it's a political one at all I think all
00:02:52.800 parties could campaign on having something like this and bringing it to
00:02:55.960 Canada I think it's about time