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CanadaRocks@piefed.ca to CanadaPolitics@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 个月前

A private bill to give 16-year olds the vote is back in Parliament

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A private bill to give 16-year olds the vote is back in Parliament

CanadaRocks@piefed.ca to CanadaPolitics@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 个月前
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https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/bill/C-210/first-reading

Elections Canada research shows most adult voters oppose the measure: “Seven in ten respondents, 72 percent, disagreed.”

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    This would benefit Conservatives (and the NDP to a lesser extent) and hurt the Liberals. https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/federal-election-vote-intention-split-among-age-gender-nanos/

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      Kind of ironic since the sponsor of the bill is from the Liberal party.

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        NDP actually.

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          I thought it was introduced by Nate Erskine Smith?

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            It says Bachrach.

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