North of the Border, the Youth Gender-Political Split Looks Different
Andrew Parkin, executive director of the Environics Institute for Survey Research, tells CBC that young people aren't feeling the same political split north of the border.
Parkin says people in the U.S. are reacting to their political developments, and that 'we haven't had a leader like Trump to provoke that kind of reaction.'
He also says men are not generally becoming more conservative.
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The useful part is the mechanism: Parkin treats the U.S. reaction as a response to a specific political figure, not as an automatic stage of modern life.
That mechanism is about a broad pattern, but the campus reporting shows the subject is hardly absent: most University of Ottawa students CBC spoke with either called politics pivotal in relationships or said they avoid bringing it up altogether.