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Location: BC
Location: BC
February 4th, 2003, 09:34 AM
When I was mulling over the reasons for why Canadians are going to the polls to vote their concious for a speach I am writing I thought of this: National Voting Day
What I am proposing is a day, what would be a national holiday set for the middle of the week say wednesday, that would be a paid holiday like Christmas that would be enacted every time a Federal Election is called. I picked wednesday so people would be less inclined to just take off from their riding for some deserved R & R.
I propose this for some very obvious reasons. If we are to set aside a national day where all Canadians have the day off we could see a rise in voter turnout just because many will have easier access to getting out to vote. Beyond that though would be more of a sense of pride and duty to fullfill our civic duty.
Feedback would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance my fellow Canadians. :P
edited for bad grammer
When I was mulling over the reasons for why Canadians are going to the polls to vote their concious for a speach I am writing I thought of this: National Voting Day
What I am proposing is a day, what would be a national holiday set for the middle of the week say wednesday, that would be a paid holiday like Christmas that would be enacted every time a Federal Election is called. I picked wednesday so people would be less inclined to just take off from their riding for some deserved R & R.
I propose this for some very obvious reasons. If we are to set aside a national day where all Canadians have the day off we could see a rise in voter turnout just because many will have easier access to getting out to vote. Beyond that though would be more of a sense of pride and duty to fullfill our civic duty.
Feedback would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance my fellow Canadians. :P
edited for bad grammer
Member
Posts: 234
Location: BC
Location: BC
February 5th, 2003, 12:29 AM
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Might be a bit of overload for the first time but I really like that idea. thank you very much for sharing.
A national voting day every 4 years would be good. but have provincial and local elections at the same time as the federal one. Then you would get a larger turnout.
