The Importance Of Voting In Canada

Jane Goodall once stated, along these lines, that each person makes a difference but it’s up to that person what type of difference they want to make. Young people these days are put into the category that they cannot make a difference, they are belittled and made out to be careless. In turn these young people start to believe that they can’t make a difference therefore they don’t bother trying. This affect is seen in youth in their involvement in politics, the voting rate in Canada for youth voters has been declining for years according to Elections Canada , young adults therefore don’t appear all that interested in politics.

Young people don’t vote for numerous reasons that should be addressed in order to get them involved especially for the sake of the future. The problems must be identified, than different tactics must be studied and in the end solutions must be applied.

The problems
Most do not vote for they feel they do not have the knowledge needed to make the right choice. Now the Canadian government does enforce a Careers and Civics course that must be taken in grade 10, however the course effectiveness cannot be well evaluated, for the provinces control education, and the content, the teachers that teach the course, and the way it is graded varies . Than two years later you turn 18 and you can vote, but what does that really mean, what are you voting for, who are you voting for and the most important question of them all is, what are you getting in