It's been a long 40 days but we made it through! It's election day in Canada!! Time for all Canadians 18 and older to get to their local polling station and decide who gets to run this great country of ours. What a responsibility. What a privilege. Now we wait to see what the next government will look like.
Unlike the US our elections are fast. This year roughly 7 weeks were spent campaigning, advertising and debating. Even in that relatively short period of time, we got sick of the rhetoric. We were tired of hearing what the other party is going to ruin for the country. Our patience for politicians seems to be quite low.
Four years ago 68% of the eligible voters actually voted. That seems like a lot but apparently, it's historically not. People don't vote for many reasons and not all make sense. Some don't want to be called for jury duty which seems like the most ridiculous reason. Others believe all politicians are crooks and won't waste their time. Still others believe that their one little ballot won't make a difference so why bother. All of those statements are false. Well not the jury duty one but definitely the others.
Those who do not vote lose their right to complain about decisions the government makes....in my humble opinion. If you refuse to be part of the process you cannot gripe about the conclusion.
Do your civic duty today. Go vote. Have a say in the running of your country. Then sit back with the rest of us and hope we made the right choice!
Ang
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