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-- G.K. Chesterton
The strength and health of a democracy is directly proportional to the level of
engagement of its citizens. A democracy is a living and breathing thing.
It is like a circulatory system at the heart of our country, and like a human
heart, it needs regular exercise
or we run the risk of disease and atrophy, or even worse, failure.
As Canadians, we are fortunate to live in a country with a long and successful history
of peaceful and relatively good democratic government. But our good fortune comes as the fruit
of the labour of many preceding generations, beginning with the courageous alliance between
Louis LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin in 1848, bringing Upper Canada and Lower Canada together
in a great, uneasy experiment in grassroots, pluralist democracy.
Our simple, uncontested right to take a part in choosing the future of our country
is not something that comes easily in the rest of the world.
Just the day before voting day,
a group of Afghans on their way to vote were gunned down.
Suspected Taliban gunmen stopped a van packed with people on a road in southern
Afghanistan, then sprayed the occupants with bullets after finding that they had
registered to vote, a local police official said Sunday. Ten people were killed.
From the Globe and Mail
As citizens, voting is the
minimum commitment we can make to our country.
-- Norman Cousins
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