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A private bill to give 16-year olds the vote is back in Parliament (piefed.ca)
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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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[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

At 16 I certainly would have voted like my parents because they had made me think the same way they did and any other way was wrong.

In hindsight, every choice they made was the wrong choice that brought in further conservative politics, austerity and the destruction of our social safety net.