Justin Trudeau is engaging the youth vote. And if some of the 250 Liberal supporters at McMaster University’s Convocation Hall needed more convincing, Trudeau offered a small taste of what it’s like to be engaged in a political campaign.

“The intensity, the excitement of being in the middle of a political campaign — it’s heavy, it’s fun stuff,” started Trudeau. “There’s pizza, sex and all sorts of fun things.”

It was one of several lighter moments in a student town hall session at McMaster Wednesday afternoon, in which the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau took questions on student concerns and the future of the country.

The MP was named the youth, post-secondary education and amateur sports critic for the Liberal party, and his stop at McMaster was one of several scheduled for the day.

He started with a rehearsed speech, speaking in broad strokes on the shift in society’s ideas, ending on how students could be part of that change immediately, and denouncing the “leaders of tomorrow” cliché.

Students’ questions focused on education funding and Trudeau called for a national discussion on education, with the focus on making education affordable, “both going into it, and coming out of it.”

He spoke about student engagement and said that in a time of flash mobs, youths could make the most impact by participating in everyday politics.

“It’s exciting to be part of a protest and certainly makes a clear message but politics and politicians respond to continually engaged pressure better than they do one smack,” said Trudeau.

The majority of people in attendance wouldn’t have been alive for Trudeaumania, yet they were engaged and genuinely excited to meet the Liberal star at the end of the talk.

Trudeau admits his last name carries a lot of weight, but said at the youth level it’s not nearly as important.

“Those pressures come more when I talk to seniors than when I talk to young people — which is why I like to talk to young people as much as I do. It’s very much about me, about what I’m doing right or poorly as opposed to what my father might have done for a previous generation.”

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