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Democracy isn't a destination. It's a process. Exercise your rights, participate and vote.
Our government is a reflection of our society. When we as a nation cede our right to participate in government, our lack of care for our commonwealth is reflected in the lack of care our government shows to the institutions and traditions that support that common good - our environment, our parks and wilderness, our cities and rural communities, our schools and hospitals, our artists and athletes, our soldiers and public servants.
So vote. Whatever you do on Tuesday, October 14th, if you are 18 and over and a Canadian citizen eligible to vote, then vote.
To find out if you are eligible and how to enroll in the voters list, visit Elections Canada.
Stand up for Canada and vote. That's the first step.
The second is vote smart.
It's no secret how much I loathe our present government - I find them regressive, small-minded and hateful. And that's the polite version.
Canada is facing an environmental and economic crisis.
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives' policy of business as usual, of mortgaging our future and our children's future to big oil companies, of allowing industry to despoil our natural places, of the the politics of division, of the pettiness and patronizing and pandering to people's worst fears... It needs to stop. It needs to stop now.
So I urge you to consider http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/. Choose your candidate wisely. Vote to stop Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.
Our government is a reflection of our society. When we as a nation cede our right to participate in government, our lack of care for our commonwealth is reflected in the lack of care our government shows to the institutions and traditions that support that common good - our environment, our parks and wilderness, our cities and rural communities, our schools and hospitals, our artists and athletes, our soldiers and public servants.
So vote. Whatever you do on Tuesday, October 14th, if you are 18 and over and a Canadian citizen eligible to vote, then vote.
To find out if you are eligible and how to enroll in the voters list, visit Elections Canada.
Stand up for Canada and vote. That's the first step.
The second is vote smart.
It's no secret how much I loathe our present government - I find them regressive, small-minded and hateful. And that's the polite version.
Canada is facing an environmental and economic crisis.
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives' policy of business as usual, of mortgaging our future and our children's future to big oil companies, of allowing industry to despoil our natural places, of the the politics of division, of the pettiness and patronizing and pandering to people's worst fears... It needs to stop. It needs to stop now.
So I urge you to consider http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/. Choose your candidate wisely. Vote to stop Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.