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It's more like if the Cons get in, only the wealthiest 10% get 75 cents...everyone else gets told to get a better job.

   

In countries where there is a mandatory voting policy, people can get their name crossed off the electoral list. But they have to show up to the polling place.
So you still have the choice to not vote.

I'm for mandatory voting.

   

hey , your welcome . What you said only makes sense . So what if its the truth . The truth always bugs people .

   

Ifyou first try to address the reason for voter apathy excuses vary from the issues are too complex to the person didn't like any of the candidates; with our apologetic political observer intelligensia fingering negative campaigns and first past the post balloting as the truer culprit.

The vanishing voter plagues both Canada and the US whose liberal social ideology of 'what's in it for me?' (cultured over the reign of the Baby Boomer) does not exactly lend itself to selfless political participation.

The primary reason people do not vote is that they do not perceive it as being in their self-interest. All parties try to play to this, ie Librano campaign promises to students, in hopes of striking a chord with each self-interested group. Canada is particularly bad for this due to our penchant for multiculturalism.

Mandatory voting is in place in some 33 countries and has had mixed reviews. In the 1920s Australia hit 58% turnout and enacted legislation for mandatory voting embedding into the cultural more of a voting habit rather than acquiescent participation.

I think the more appropriate solution lies in providing people with the option of "None of the Above" or "No Candidate Acceptable" and making the results binding. Further, like the Iraqis, all participating voters should be identified so they can boast their conscientious objections directly to their fellow citizens.

   

Voting is most definately a priviledge, but youre right it is your duty to exersise that priviledge. The point I was trying to get at is that as much as people think that voting is a right, it is not. Many democratic soceities are only one or two moves away from either a facist or communist government in which the voting priviledge can be taken away. Any government could under extreme circumstances pospone elections due to a state of war, and is the person was popular enough get away with it.

I agree do your democratic duty and vote on Jan 23 2006

   

Only if they make thinking mandatory first.

   

I don't think thinking would improve things, don't you think.

   

Hey while were at it why don't we have the mps personally come and shovel the walks of all the people who voted?

Rewarding people for doing their democratic duty is like giveing a child a treat for not doing anything wrong, instead of doing something right. The government you helped to choose should be, and is, reward enough.

   

Cogito ergo I say we give it a shot.

   

I think voting is a right as is abstaining.

My intrest is what your saying about Quebec sepratists. Could federalists be do more to show pride in Quebec?

   

To make votyin g manditory would be a mistake, reason being that more then half the people in Canada are not only complete morons, but they are also quite uninformed and hence they would just go in vote for the random name and go out, we want a government that is brought into the house because it proved itself the best not a government thats brought into the house because it has a cool name.
We already have too many uninformed people voting now, if anything I find a sort of limit should be set on who can vote, a sort of test to show that you have some sort of understanding of what the parties are offering and so on.

   

What we need is a government that deserves to be there because they propose progressive reforms and change. We do not need a government in because they no longer deserve to be there. The worst thing that can happen in any election is that we vote agianst someone instead voting for someone.

   

Canadians have always elected the governments they deserve!

   

No question we get what we deserve when voter turn out is as low as it is, but do those we elect deserve to be there?

   

This is why voting should be mandatory, and should someone not vote, it should be a criminal action. By making it Criminal, everyone would be more inclined to have an opinion, and perhaps you are right, and the first few elections would be more chaotic than needs to be, but after that, I'm sure people would begin to care. Another way to ensure that people don't waste their voice in government is to have people pay five dollars at the voting station when they cast their ballot.

   

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