Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦#PollyToynbee is 100% right: it might be the last gasp chance for democracy: lower the vote to 16. The kids CAN'T do any worse than we've done.
The-14Canadian MPs need an incentive to lower the voting age to 16 from 18 — and there’s none in sight
#Canada #Politics #Elections #YouthVote #VotingAge #Voting #CanadaPolitics #LowerTheVote #YouthEngagement #DemocracyNow #CanadianParliament #From18To16
https://the-14.com/canadian-mps-need-an-incentive-to-lower-the-voting-age-to-16-from-18-and-theres-none-in-sight/
#Canada #Politics #Elections #YouthVote #VotingAge #Voting #CanadaPolitics #LowerTheVote #YouthEngagement #DemocracyNow #CanadianParliament #From18To16
https://the-14.com/canadian-mps-need-an-incentive-to-lower-the-voting-age-to-16-from-18-and-theres-none-in-sight/
What a disaster: if MPs insist on acting like children, why don't we just lower the vote, then? #LowerTheVote to 16.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/witnesses-storm-out-of-committee-house-of-commons-1.7281298
VERY interesting article on the voter turnout in the #UK election. I assumed the 'stay aways' were disaffected #Conservative voters. Nope. It was "the have-nots", as the article says.
To me, the biggest takeaway: #Labour's intention to LOWER THE VOTING AGE to 16. Excellent: those new voters have far more skin in the game than, for example, I do.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/12/lowest-turnout-in-uk-general-election-since-universal-suffrage-report-shows?CMP=GTUK_email
Kids with legal status in climate court cases gives them agency when they're too young to vote. My solution: #lowerthevote https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/26/stop-locking-young-people-out-of-legal-process-in-climate-cases-say-experts?CMP=GTUK_email
@mbonsma The reason I say #LowerTheVote; I'd happily give my vote (I'm 73) over, randomly, to a 16 year old. They have SO MUCH MORE skin in the game than I do.
#LowerTheVote...to 16. THEN you'll finally see change. It would be the single greatest and most progressive change democracy has seen in a couple hundred years. It's THEIR future, not mine in the balance.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/21/children-at-existential-risk-from-climate-crisis-uks-top-paediatrician-says?utm_term=653376f5997e64e51ee22b88fd8e1e49&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/21/children-at-existential-risk-from-climate-crisis-uks-top-paediatrician-says?utm_term=653376f5997e64e51ee22b88fd8e1e49&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email
@globeandmail #lowerthevote to 16. THEN there’ll be change.
@GreenFire #LowerTheVote - to 16. It’s THEIR future, not mine.
@georgetakei Go the other way: #lowerthevote to 16. They have far more at stake than I do.