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- Title: Forcing Ourselves to Vote: As Fewer Canadians Turn up at the Polls, Compulsory Voting is a Choice to Consider
- Author : Literary Review of Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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[Sometimes events overtake our most careful editorial plans. In mid October, Calgary stunned the country by electing Canada's first Muslim mayor, Naheed Nenshi, and voter turnout was an impressive 53 percent, up from a lacklustre 33 percent in 2007. Nevertheless, the issues surrounding compulsory voting remain pressing, so we press on. Editor] VOTING IN ELECTIONS, MOST OF US WOULD agree, is the absolute basis of democracy, the sine qua non of our form of government. Why, then, did only 59.1 percent of us vote in the last federal election in 2008?