Get your Vote On!

Well, here we are, voting day.

There's a group called www.getyourvoteon.ca that was handing out stickers and info at the Broken Social Scene concert. If you're remotely interested in voting (and I think we all should be, seeing how we live in this country), I'd recommend checking out the site. Lots of handy info, as well as some of the following disturbing facts:

• Each generation of Canadians votes less than the last.
  
• Fewer than 50% of us born after 1975 vote in local, provincial or federal elections.
  
• In the 2000 federal election, only 25% of us between 18 and 24 bothered to cast a ballot.
  
• Politicians make decisions in the interests of those who vote. We need to get on it

In light of the above facts, no wonder we keep getting the same peons running for office over and over. It's not like one day we'll have all these magical candidates that are perfect for us show up at an election, these things take time to evolve. Start now!

Happy Voting!

j