Justin Trudeau adviser backs mandatory voting

[JLM]

If you're not going to vote, why have an election? If you don't vote, you can't complain.

You may want to rethink that one #Juan! What does an uninformed vote add to make a candidate more eligible to win?

Justin Trudeau adviser backs mandatory voting, preferential ballots - Politics - CBC News

Canada should adopt mandatory voting and a preferential ballot to re-engage citizens in the political system and reinforce democracy, says a new paper by an adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

I think 'mandatory' goes against the grain of a freedom!

Perhaps that is the solution. When you vote you get a complainers license good until the next election. If you are caught complaining without a license, you get fined.

That should create a few jobs for a bunch more f**king bureaucraps.

 

[#juan]

You may want to rethink that one #Juan! What does an uninformed vote add to make a candidate more eligible to win?



I think 'mandatory' goes against the grain of a freedom!



That should create a few jobs for a bunch more f**king bureaucraps.

The idea JLM, is for everyone to get out and vote. People who don't vote cannot complain about their government. When our little bar group gets together on a Friday, the biggest bitchers are those who don't vote.

 

[Cliffy]

The idea JLM, is for everyone to get out and vote. People who don't vote cannot complain about their government. When our little bar group gets together on a Friday, the biggest bitchers are those who don't vote.

Do you ever bitch about Harpo?

 

[#juan]

Do you ever bitch about Harpo?

We bitch about him too.

 

[JLM]

The idea JLM, is for everyone to get out and vote. People who don't vote cannot complain about their government. When our little bar group gets together on a Friday, the biggest bitchers are those who don't vote.

You are putting the cart before the horse- FIRST you have to get informed, SECOND once you are informed VOTE, THIRD, if you've made an informed vote, then you can bitch, AS LONG as you are bitching about the guy you voted for. If on election day you are ignorant on the candidates and the issues- stay home, your uninformed vote only confuses things, besides getting people elected who shouldn't be there.

At risk of getting off the topic a little, in a democracy should a law abiding citizen with a clean record be told where he/she can/cannot travel on the planet.

 

[captain morgan]

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At risk of getting off the topic a little, in a democracy should a law abiding citizen with a clean record be told where he/she can/cannot travel on the planet.

Then don't come crying to the Canadian public when you get yourself in trouble in one of these hot spots

 

[petros]

I think 'mandatory' goes against the grain of a freedom!

Like the census or filing income tax?

 

[JLM]

Then don't come crying to the Canadian public when you get yourself in trouble in one of these hot spots

We're treading a "tightrope" here. What if my dying mother happened to be a resident of the restricted area? Is some A$$hole going to tell me I can't go to visit her on her death bed?

Like the census or filing income tax?

Both of those can be demonstrated to have a beneficial purpose. What is the purpose of restricting a law abiding citizen?

The idea JLM, is for everyone to get out and vote. People who don't vote cannot complain about their government. When our little bar group gets together on a Friday, the biggest bitchers are those who don't vote.

Being able to bitch because you voted is a nice sentiment, but in reality it doesn't mean a bloody thing.

 

[petros]

Both of those can be demonstrated to have a beneficial purpose. What is the purpose of restricting a law abiding citizen?

As is voting. All laws are restrictive.

 

[JLM]

As is voting. All laws are restrictive.

Allowing a person to vote isn't restrictive, forcing him to vote is.

 

[#juan]

Allowing a person to vote isn't restrictive, forcing him to vote is.

No one is forcing anyone to vote. Our democracy is based on free elections where everyone has the right to vote.

If you don't vote, if you throw away that right, you deserve what you get.

Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a section that constitutionally guarantees all ... Nevertheless, the right to vote and to run in an election is subject to other reasonable limits .

 

[JLM]

No one is forcing anyone to vote. Our democracy is based on free elections where everyone has the right to vote.

If you don't vote, if you throw away that right, you deserve what you get.

Sounds like one of these denominational clerics who warn us if we break a commandment we'll be suffering fire and brimstone in Hell!

 

[petros]

Allowing a person to vote isn't restrictive, forcing him to vote is.

So what happened to the law abiding citizens?

 

[JLM]

So what happened to the law abiding citizens?

Probably very little!