Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Vote!

Like a good citizen, I applied for a mail vote weeks ago. Tomorrow I will stick a stamp and cross my fingers that it will get to Ottawa on time. 

Out of 23.6 million electors in the last election, only 5.2 million voted for Harper's Conservatives. That's 22% of eligible voters, and 16.2% of the total population. There are 5.65 million Canadians aged 18-29. In the past, this age group has voted so little that politicians don't bother with them. If all of Canada's youth voted, they would rock the whole political system!

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