social commitment as an artist song for several years, I always felt we had a duty to do more to overcome the values of freedom, equality and fraternity in the Quebec society. I think Michael Ramsay, who wrote eloquently: "The whole world is a great republic in which every nation is a family and each individual child . If, indeed, I tried to increase my participation in events related to causes that I had at heart, if my convictions have led me to express my views on youth in the Quebec media (in Le Devoir including or taking part in a memorable intergenerational debate Bazzo.TV ), I always had the intimate conviction that political involvement should be central in our lives.
Certainly, not all necessarily need to abandon everything for a political career, but we must make every effort to inform themselves properly in order to participate fully in democracy ... otherwise we become responsible for developing policies that not only does not represent us, but we will hurt.
What happiness, then, in fall 2009, when I came quite by chance on an announcement from the Youth Council of Montreal, which is undergoing "Recruitment Campaign" ! Curious, I visited the website this board that I had never heard of ... and I learn it together fifteen volunteer members from all boroughs. I learn that this Council has "[m] andate advise the mayor and the executive committee on matters of youth" . I also note that current members are inspiring people. I realized then that enthusiastically is a way to influence decisions that affect young Montrealers ... more I understand that the Youth Council of Montreal issued "Notice" that are actually taken into account by the Mayor of Montreal and the executive committee of the city and, therefore, I see this as a golden opportunity to defend a worldview resolutely young and imbued with my own experience of Montrealers 28 years.
I decided to send my application to the selection committee. In winter 2009, following an interview, my application is successful and I am now awaiting a warrant. The good news comes in the summer of 2010. Then I learn that I can sit soon for a period of three years and that my appointment will be ratified at the Council of the City of Montreal next Monday, or Monday, August 23, 2010 !
You understand now why I wanted to dedicate this blog to this experiment. The reflections of this blog will be inspired by the encounters that I will. Thus, during my occasional meetings as a member of the Council, I will try to present a worldview committed, but not partisan, the goal is not to take a position for either party, but to understand the issues, going towards the Other, as written Hannah Arendt, trying to "understand the world as it appears on the other."
This is a political act as I see it.
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