I'd favour lowering it to 14.

You can be a voting member of a political party at 14.

I suspect the teen demographic would vote in HUGE numbers. It would change Canada.

For the good. https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1263779164911525890

Suddenly all the issues that politicians cavalierly ignore that matter so much would be front and centre.

Young people care about poverty. They care about the environment. They care about post-secondary education costs.

They would absolutely vote if they had the opportunity.

The disengagement doesn't really happen until the late teens and 20s. That 14-18 demographic are idealistic and get engaged.

They've been protesting the Ford government hard.

They hit the streets on global warming.

But even that disengagement in the late teens and 20s was more my generation, and Gen X. So that's probably unfair.

Today's young people are very different.

That's clear.

My generation wouldn't have taken much interest. The generations after us do.

We give young people the vote, we won't recognize Canada in 10 years.

It would be a far better place.

Imagine politicians being accountable to high school students, and fighting for their votes.

That would mean transformational change.

The Conservatives will always fight tooth and nail any attempt to lower the voting age.

It would mean their *instant death*.

But any argument they come up with will be offensive, and piss off voters.

So let them try.

Fyi: the time to lower the voting age is now. Federally this is the only time, with Trudeau as leader, I can imagine the Liberals supporting it. They wouldn't otherwise bc they would fear these votes would go NDP/Green. Right now they feel pretty confident with young ppl.

Ie) OLP would never support it. And one day LPC will slide back to an OLP state post-Trudeau. So, the time is now.