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this Commission must provide.

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What guarantee is

there that its advice will be accepted? Furthermore,

as matters pertaining to youth can cut across

a number

of policy areas, will the co-ordinating branch be able, however willing, to encourage co-operation and co-ordination in the implementation of the proposed policy at all

times? What if such encouragement is resisted by some

key departments in the bureaucratic machinery? I hope those queries are not to be dismissed as expressions

of negative cynicism. These are positive efforts to

avoid the obstacles intentionally or unintentionally mounted by negative forces that we non-officials have

all come across in our work within government.

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But it will be quite wrong to think that it is all up to government. The success hinges on the joint cffort of

The realisation of goals government and the community. depends very heavily on the education and training of

youth leaders.

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Not enough is done, in my opinion, to sharpen common scnse and independence in our young people. It is true

that young people nowadays, more than ever, are left on their own, often relied upon by their parents

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