Tories target young voters, talk campus recruitment at convention

Conservatives need to be conscious now of what views will help the party win ‘10 or 20 years down the line,’ says one delegate.

From left, Toronto Conservative convention delegate William Luke, president of the Saskatchewan Party Youth Tye Hapke, University of Waterloo student Alexander Corelli, and University of Lethbridge student Emily Gilroy. The Hill Times photographs by Samantha Wright Allen

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

August 25, 2018

With a record-number of youth turning out to vote, young Conservative convention delegates gathered in Halifax this weekend say their party can close the gap that saw the Liberals capture their demographic in 2015, if they keep the “big blue tent” in mind on controversial issues and steer clear ...

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