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Originally posted by baddog
This is truly amazing from my point of view.
87% of the Canadians on this board would be jumping in to give their opinion on our election, yet I am learning that you won't even vote in your own election.
Like I tell people here (in US), if you don't/didn't vote, don't bitch.
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Perhaps the misanthropes and malcontents on HERE don't vote, but by and large the average canadian does, and does so reliably. Roughly 2 out of 3 eligible voters do so in every federal election, although that value has been dropping over the last decade (it was at 75% when we all got together to hand the conservatives their last ass-whooping after Mulrooney saddled us with the GST and NAFTA). The ones who aren't voting these days are the 20-something kids, who just can't be bothered to give a fuck.
I personally have voted in every election available to me (including by absentee ballot when not at home when it happens) all the way down to the municipal level... in my opinion, anyone who DOESN'T vote and (should the worst happen) lets our country be taken over by the cross-burning Regressive Conservatives is just as responsible as the ones who did vote for them.
It only takes one backwards administration to push our country down a wrong path that can take many years to recover from (if ever! We're STILL fucked with the GST and NAFTA, after all!)... I seriously worry that Harper will be another Poison Pill government if the worst happens.