A strong majority of Tory delegates at the party's national policy convention voted against a resolution today that would have introduced an official youth wing of the party.

After the vote, retired MP Stockwell Day told a small scrum of reporters that Conservative youth didn't need their own organization to have their voices heard.

"What was upheld was the fact that people shouldn't be splintered off into little interest groups. That everybody has a full say in this party," he said.

"The dynamic of youth in the Conservative Party, the young MPs, the young individuals across the country that are making the party strong means they are in the mainstream of this party and in the mainstream of effecting change."

Delegate Ryan Warawa, co-author of the resolution, told Yahoo! Canada News that despite what many delegates seemed to believe, treating youth differently was not the purpose of the resolution.

"The intent and spirit of the resolution was to simply provide an extra mechanism to ensure that our existing campus clubs don't die from semester-to-semester which can sometimes happen if they are not looked after," he said.

"It's also a way to help encourage our identified youth and our identified students to become stronger participants within their Electoral District Associations."

Warawa, the son of Conservative MP Mark Warawa, says a youth group within the Reform Party is how he got involved in politics.

He suggests this resolution was defeated because the other side was more organized and better funded.

"It would have cost them some sort of money to have a website, print flyers, and buttons. Those things don't come for free," he said.

"Certainly on the pro-youth side there was not a single dollar spent."

According to the youth resolution Facebook page, the Conservative Party of Canada is the only major political party in the G-8 without some form of youth or student network.