How I see it

Finally Action is taken.

Finally! The wait is over. For weeks, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used violent measures to quell democratic protestors within the country. Innocent protestors, expressing their discontent with his 11 year Presidency have been killed in clashes with police.  700 people have been reported killed by the violent force police forces have undertaken.

Unemployment, inflation and a corrupt government have all been cited as the petitions the people have regarding Bashar’s management of the country. Moreover, it could also be stated that the people’s revolt could be influenced by the earlier democratic revolutions as seen in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the middle east.

I began to grow with much hope for this situation. As we saw in Libya, the international community was quick to stop and prevent more deaths by implementing a no fly zone over the country. As such, I saw precedent to seek some form of behavioral check, if you will, on the Syrian President’s actions towards his own people. Unfortunately it has taken this long for the international community to take action. Nevertheless I must commend President Obama for his passing of sanctions on Syria. Hopefully other countries will follow suit.

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.