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They’re making do by living with parents longer and delaying having children. Affordable rental housing is scarce, and home ownership is mostly beyond their reach, even for two working professionals. But to make a difference, they’ve got to find time to get involved with politics, which they have largely been loathe to do. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were big beneficiaries of millennials’ support in 2015. Only one of B.C.’s 42 members of parliament is a millennial, and only seven per cent of MLAs. She is doing it even though American millennials are even less likely to vote than Canadians. Only 31 per cent voted in the key 2018 midterm election, and 51 per cent voted in the 2016 presidential election. In Canada, 57 per cent voted in the last federal election in millennials’ best showing so far. Nearly 80 per cent of those aged 65 to 74 voted, as did roughly 75 per cent of the 55- to 64-year-olds. They claimed that younger Canadians got nearly twice the benefits of older Canadians.