Emma Elbourne-Weinstock is worried so she got involved
Emma Elbourne-Weinstock admits to having been among the army of millennials who have become cynical and disillusioned with party politics but soon realized that apathy was not a choice. The impending social and environmental crisis facing us as a society is becoming more urgent, she says. So, she moved from thinking that government can’t or won’t doing anything to motivating herself to get involved at the highest level. Today, the 20-something-year-old is in the thick of the political mix, running as a candidate for the NDP in Notre Dame de Grace-Westmount. Timing, she says, is everything. “I’ve always been involved …