14 4 / 2011
The Plight of Canadian Democracy
Every election cycle, the youth turnout is rather dismal. If anything, this turnout signals the disinterest felt amongst Canada’s youth. More importantly, there needs to be something done to ratify this issue. Why? Well, it is clear the Canadian political parties have noticed the disinterest and have decided to omit policies which would be in the interest of Students and young people (With the exception of Canada’s left of course).
http://leadnow.ca/ is trying to rectify this issue by running a campaign that is curtailed to getting youth out to vote through “vote mobs” at various Universities across the country. This noble stride is something that is worth commendation.
Canada’s youth won’t be heard unless the current youth do something about this. This is why I encourage my fellow young Canadians to get out there, vote and make a participate in a political system that people in different parts of the globe are striving to achieve- democracy.
We owe it to those who are currently fighting in Yemen and Tunisia, to show them that Democracy is WORTH fighting for, dying for and that we WILL NOT take this for granted.
