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Article: New Brunswick perspective on youth in politics.

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December 1, 2000
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After the New Brunswick general election of June 1999, the youngest MLA was 23-year-old Kirk MacDonald. In total there were four MLAs under the age of thirty and ten MLAs under the age of forty (including four cabinet ministers). This article looks at how the influx of youth has diversified the face of politics in New Brunswick

When I was elected in a by-election on October 19, 1998, I was at thirty years old, the youngest MLA in the New Brunswick Legislature. Also elected at that time were 33-year-old Brad Green (now Justice Minister) and 33-year-old Bernard Lord (now Premier). Following our swearing-in the Telegraph-Journal ran a front page photo with the ...

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