Standing on the side of a road in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, former MLA Jeannie Ehaloak looks around and sees several issues in her community she wants addressed.

“We've lost our arena, we lost our youth centre, so there's a lot of vandalism and mischief going around in our community. Our youth are crying for help,” she said.

She’s not the only one concerned about future generations and she sees it as a territorial election issue.

Cambridge Bay’s youth centre program co-ordinator, Darlene Agitak, says youth don't really have a platform where they can engage in civics and tell politicians what change they would like to see. In her view, creating a youth committee could be one place to start.

“Youth, they don't really understand how government works and how their voice, their ideas, their o

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