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I don't outwardly oppose the idea, but to be perfectly honest with myself I do not think I was mature enough at sixteen for my opinion to matter at a macro scale.
Given the trend of young men moving to the right, it does worry me a bit where the youth of Canada would place their vote and what the future that would create for them would look like.
I would rather limit voting to between the ages of 20 and 60.
I would rather increase it to 25.
Based on the kind of person I was at 16, no thanks.
80 year olds should not be voting on things that are going to effect 16 year old for the rest of their lives without 16 year old having a voice.
Civics courses should be mandatory. Misinformation should be prohibited. Politicians should be prohibited from lying.
Small change ...
Politicians should be jailed for lying.
No objection.
Brexit
Why? So teenagers, too, can be ignored by the government?
You know why seniors' issues tend to be addressed? Because they vote like their lives depend on it and put the rest of us to shame.
No. Because the boomer generation was so massive that their voting power surpassed any other generation. Even if they don't even all go vote, they still buried the X and millennials combined.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-share-by-generation/
I mean, apart from millenials outnumbering boomers, and the fact that Gen X + millenials would outnumber them more than 2:1, uhhh, sure?