Summary of the Report on the 2023 Provincial Public Youth Consultation

Between September and November 2023, the provincial government’s Youth Secretariat (le Secrétariat à la jeunesse) ran 15 consultations covering 16 regions of the province, aiming to hear from youth aged 12 to 35, and youth-serving organisations, about their needs and ambitions. The information collected from the consultation process will structure the province’s third “Plan d’action jeunesse de la Politique québécoise de la jeunesse 2030,” which, in turn, determines government spending priorities and initiatives. As with the Secretariat’s previous Plan d’action (2021-2024), these conversations were structured around seven different “axes d’intervention”; employment, entrepreneurship, the environment, culture, education, health, and citizenship. The government believes these axes continue to reflect the primary areas of interest to youth. Y4Y was present at four of the consultations, namely those for the regions of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Montérégie, Montréal, and the closing event in the Capitale-Nationale. Our organisation, furthermore, submitted a brief to the Secretariat, in an attempt to reflect the priorities expressed by English-speaking youth in Y4Y’s network. Below is a brief summary of the Secretariat’s findings from the consultation process, based on the results compiled in the “Rapport de la consultation publique pour la jeunesse 2023.”