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"Canadians like the idea of public service for young adults. Should it be mandatory?"
At least seven in 10 people responding to a recent Angus Reid poll supported the idea of one year of mandatory public service for Canadians under 30 — things like tutoring kids or working in national parks. Mandatory military service, however, was more divisive, with 43 per cent in support and 44 per cent opposed.
Amid Canada's Elbows Up wave, the idea was to gauge our appetite for this kind of national initiative...
Whenever the CBC asks a question like this, you know that they're testing public reaction and that their coverage is designed to make you answer "yes". Significantly, the testimonies in favour of using young people's bodies as a natural resource to be deployed wherever the State sees fit all come from non-white immigrants; as Canada becomes less white, the idea of personal autonomy is being eroded, and left-wing political causes start to be perceived as important enough to compulsorily demand your service to them, much as the Soviet Union demanded mandatory participation in Communist parades and infrastructure projects.
While the article admits that young people might find it financially punishing to be out of the workforce for years on end, even this can be remedied by more government interference in the economy (in conformity with the usual pattern: government creates the problem, then offers the solution to the problem in the form of more government).
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Note that most of the comments in favour of this idea are from older people who will never be affected by it. These are the same people whose selfish hypochondria destroyed the lives of the young five years ago.
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