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NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago

Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

www.nationalobserver.com

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Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

www.nationalobserver.com

NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago
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Now that the British government has vowed to lower its voting age to 16 by the next general election, one Canadian senator says it's past time for Canada to do the same.
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  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    I would rather limit voting to between the ages of 20 and 60.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t outwardly oppose the idea, but to be perfectly honest with myself I do not think I was mature enough at sixteen for my opinion to matter at a macro scale.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      Given the trend of young men moving to the right, it does worry me a bit where the youth of Canada would place their vote and what the future that would create for them would look like.

  • Gleddified@lemmy.ca
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    Based on the kind of person I was at 16, no thanks.

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    80 year olds should not be voting on things that are going to effect 16 year old for the rest of their lives without 16 year old having a voice.

    Civics courses should be mandatory. Misinformation should be prohibited. Politicians should be prohibited from lying.

    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Small change …

      Politicians should be jailed for lying.

      • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        No objection.

  • resetp913@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 months ago

    I would rather increase it to 25.

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Brexit

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    Why? So teenagers, too, can be ignored by the government?

    • MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca
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      You know why seniors’ issues tend to be addressed? Because they vote like their lives depend on it and put the rest of us to shame.

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        No. Because the boomer generation was so massive that their voting power surpassed any other generation. Even if they don’t even all go vote, they still buried the X and millennials combined.

        • MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca
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          https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-share-by-generation/

          I mean, apart from millenials outnumbering boomers, and the fact that Gen X + millenials would outnumber them more than 2:1, uhhh, sure?

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