Canada Youth Parliament

What?

In addition to Session, members of YPM also have the valuable opportunity of participating in the biennial Canada Youth Parliament (CYP), hosted in alternation by four YPs:

Though only the above four YPs take turns hosting CYP at their local legislatures, members from all YPs across Canada are invited to attend.

Delegates from the 18th Western Canada Youth Parliament, held in Winnipeg in 2018.

History

In 1981, YPM (then known as Youth Parliament of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario) organized the first Western Canada Youth Parliament (WCYP) as a project to commemorate our 60th anniversary. This marked the first occasion where representatives from all four YPs in Western Canada attended (although BCYP did not officially endorse its participation). The first WCYP in which all four YPs officially participated was at the Alberta Legislature in 1983.

In 2019, the four YPs ratified the Canada Youth Parliament Act proposed by the British Columbia Youth Parliament, which replaced the Western Canada Youth Parliament Act, renamed the event accordingly, and opened participation to other YPs across Canada.

Past Sessions

Session	Year	Province	City	Lieutenant Governor	Speaker	Premier
1	1983	Alberta	Edmonton		David Marriott	Thomas Marr
2	1985	Manitoba	Winnipeg	Lloyd Axworthy		Erminia Pallone
3	1987	British Columbia	Victoria	Emery Barnes	Robert MacDonald	Geoff Glave
4	1989	Saskatchewan	Regina	Arnold Tusa	Ken Millard	Scott Quendack
5	1991	Alberta	Edmonton
6	1993	Manitoba	Winnipeg	Edward Schreyer	David Cantor	Sherri Pierce
7	1996	British Columbia	Burnaby	Gordon Downing	Geoff Glave	Jennifer Jay
8	1998	Saskatchewan	Regina	Jack Wiebe	Michael Zwaagstra	Tricia Kaminski
9	2000	Alberta	Edmonton	David Marriott	Dale Harris	Ali Buckingham
10	2002	Manitoba	Winnipeg	Stuart Olmstead	Donna Chanas	Michael Feuerstein
11	2004	British Columbia	Vancouver	Val Anderson	Aniz Alani	Swithin D'Souza
12	2006	Saskatchewan	Regina	Warren McCall	Matt Leisle	Arielle Zerr
13	2008	Alberta	Edmonton	Grant Mitchell	Mat Johnson	Maureen Hasinoff
14	2010	Manitoba	Winnipeg	Allen Mills	Dana Gregoire	Darcy Vermeulen
15	2012	British Columbia	Vancouver	Jenn Jay	Gavin Hoekstra	Jenelle Yonkman
16	2014	Saskatchewan	Regina	Ralph Goodale	Nolan Blackstock	Joseph Chiliak
17	2016	Alberta	Edmonton	Danielle Larivee	Katie Kelly	Seth Burnard
18	2018	Manitoba	Winnipeg	Dorothy Dobbie	Jennifer Pawluk	Adrienne Tessier
1 (19)	2021	British Columbia	Virtual	Russell S. Brown	Jenn Jay	Mackenzie Lockhart