[2] Young has worked in the industrial sector in his adult life, and is an active member of Canada's labour movement.
He campaigned as the Communist League candidate in Parkdale for the 1990 provincial election, and called for the government to settle native land claims and pull Canadian soldiers out of the Persian Gulf.
[5] Testifying before a committee of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1991, Young defended the right of the people of Quebec to choose their own future without interference from the rest of Canada.
He moved to Montreal later in the 1990s, worked in a packing plant near the city, and was a member of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 501.
[10] He again moved to British Columbia after this, and was the Communist League's sole candidate in the 2001 provincial election, running in Vancouver-Langara and receiving 105 votes.