I'm front-page news!

I had the great pleasure of making a speech to APEX (the Association of Public Service Executives) last week. And because of this, I made the front page of my hometown paper.

Sort of cool: the Ottawa Citizen covered this conference and my speech was pretty well received. A reporter wrote this story about it (which also reflects to contents of the speech pretty well).

I get a fair amount of media coverage, but this was extra-special. One, because I grew up in Ottawa, but more importantly because I really believe that government needs to do more to engage young people. I was really honoured to be able to present to four hundred or so high ranking Public Service executives and get my message out to them: I also love telling goverment folks that teenage Canadian workers essentially have taxation without rerpresentation, because it's true. You can work - and therefore pay taxes - when you're 14 (12 in Alberta!) but you can't vote.

Anyway, it was some very nice coverage and made my family proud. Next up is getting some work with the Feds to try and effect some change. But this was a great start.