Scene: All candidates meeting at Grant MacEwan Dorm - Liberal, NDP, Conservative, Green Party, and Marxist Leninist parties are all in attendance. Many students milling about getting handshakes and buttons from various candidate, or saluted by the pimply 18 year old ML candidate.
Enter 2 short brunettes, Andrea and Stephanie, looking to talk issues. They wander over to the Liberal table, where there are two young-ish, grumpy looking young women sit, alone.
Andrea: Hey!
Girl 1- Hey. Vote for Anne McCllelan. She's a woman too.
Andrea - Wow, that makes me want to vote for her less, now that you've said that.
Girl 1 - What??!! Why would you say that!
Andrea - How does her sex have anything to do with whether or not she's a good politician? Does she not run on anything other than the fact she's a woman? Or do you assume that I'm not interested in any other issues? (confused)
Girl 1 - You know, 52% of the population is women, and only 17 percent of those in Parliament are women. You should vote for a woman to even that out. (getting angry)
Andrea - I think that perhaps we have reached a homeostasis - the number of women in parliament is the number of women there are supposed to be in parliament.
Girl 2 - They don't make enough money to go into politics. We need to change that.
Andrea - And when you do, perhaps that number in parliament will change. But you're attempting to change things from the top up, when it needs to go the other way. For the society we're in, the correct number of women are in parliament.
Girl 1 - You would say that. You're like, what? 20? I was only making a joke. God. Vote Liberal.
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Kuddos to you for taking the time to educate yourself before making the big vote come Monday...I wish everyone did that before they blindly cast their ballots.
Can I ask then if you aren't voting Liberal, who will your ballot be cast for??
Educated voters are definately important - though I'm not sure I'd rather have more partially educated people voting, or only those fully educated. The apathy is so great, that maybe even a partially informed ballot is worthwhile.
My fear in not voting Liberal is that I will split the vote in voting NDP - frankly, a Conservative gov't frightens me, and I'd like to at least ensure they're a minority. But if I don't vote with my conscience, then I'm afraid I'm as bad as another uneducated voter. I'd like to vote NDP - but I guess we'll see. Unfortunately, I'm a poll watcher, so I'll vote late in the day.
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