Dangerous Voters

02/03/06 If the last two elections have done anything positive, they have proven that four out of ten Canadians are either too apathetic or ignorant of informed choice to bother too vote… I submit to you that each and every citizen growing up in Canada’s education system should be required to take a civics course, and should be mandatory to graduate in order to gain the right to vote in this country. We have far too many undecided voters who do not make an educated, informed choice, by voting for the front-runner in association to the perceived winner, wooed by the media’s special interests, or casting their ballot in irrational, abject fear of unsubstantiated lies by partisan interests. Indeed the real travesty would be to force an electorate to vote under penalty of law, only to find that the possible repercussions may well decide a counterproductive, if not dangerous future.