Are you interested in Canadian politics? Do you want to meet other young Canadians from across the country? If so, the Forum for Young Canadians program is for you!
Each year, Forum provides over 550 high school and CEGEP students from across Canada with a uniquely enriching opportunity to learn about the processes of government, and build friendships which can last a lifetime. Forum participants spend a week in our nation's capital, immersed in the exciting world of politics and government, seeing first-hand how the government agenda is set and how decisions that affect each of us are made. They hear from Ministers, Members of Parliament, Senators, senior bureaucrats, members of the media and representatives from nongovernmental organizations. They do all this in an atmosphere which is filled with the history of our parliamentary institutions and special moments of our political life. Forum students have the special privilege of sitting in both the House of Commons and the Senate, with the Speakers of both chambers.