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Elections Canada has updated their voting page for for other ways to vote if you're a disabled voter...



Voting from home is now possible.

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This is all Harpers fault

If you can't leave your home what difference does voting make?
Not like they work, pay taxes, go to school, drive or anything else...
What issues could they possibly have an opinion on???

You could move them to another country without changing anything

I imagine they're livid that Harper has tarnished our reputation as international peace keepers.

You bring up very good points... While they may have an opinion, who cares? Only contributing members of society should have influence on how it is shaped. Societal leaches, as you position it, should have no opinion on ANYTHING. I actually just learned today that we also allow those with mental disabilities to vote. What issues could they possibly care about? Bouncy castles, edible chalk or earmuffs? The country is doomed I tells ya.

That only works if the contributing members care about the others. In today's world I just don't see that enough to be confident in disenfranchising the ill and infirm.

Only able bodied,heterosexual, white, male property owners should have the vote. (Satire)

Everyone should be able to (and should) vote because everyone is impacted by the outcome. Maybe housebound folks are not actively contributing now or in a manner that you can measure but that doesn't mean they are no longer relevant.

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that's a canadian tradition that these damn feminists and immigrants have ruined for us all.

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We also took away the right to vote for ex pats not living in the country
They are up in arms over it but if not in country I find it bizarre the want to vote

Most successful Canadians vote with their feet. How many prominent Canadians come back from the U.S. When they make it big?

If you're a Canadian, you are impacted by the decisions and policies made by the Canadian government. It's as simple as that. It doesn't matter where you live. A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.

Segregating Canadians into groups and categories with separate and distinct rights and privileges is a dangerous path to tread. Think about that. I mean really think about it. Don't brush it aside.

Bill C-24 already says, naturalized Canadians aren't real Canadians and you can be stripped of citizenship and deported a lot easier than before, if we feel you're a threat (thank you bill C-51). Now we're saying, well we don't want someone coming back here with a different set of ideals trying to change things, like all those democrat influenced hollywood freaks because they're probably all liberal anyway.

Canadians should have the ability to choose to exercise their right to vote. If we start taking that right away from Canadians gradually - first expats because they don't live here, then house bound folks because they don't contribute, then people under twentyfive because they're not mature enough, then immigrant Canadians because they weren't born here and then women because really, they bleed every month and get too emotional to make rational decisions....

Like I said, segregating Canadians into groups and categories with separate and distinct rights and privileges is a dangerous path to tread.

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Canadians with disabilities would be up in arms over this if they had arms of their own. They don't, so we need to stand up for them. Cause they can't do that either.

Sorry Annie, but if someone moved here for 2 years, became Canadian, and then moved back to their original homeland 12 years ago and as a result has lost their PRIVILEGE to vote, I could care less and I don't think many other people care either.

Seems like Harpers opponents really have nothing of substance against him that they could have done better themselves.

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Ever the gentleman as always Andy.

You're a knowledgeable guy about homes and have provided many useful posts on this forum. But your anger with me for calling you out for referring to women as 'bimbos' is blinding you to what my point was.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/im-canadian-expat-donald-sutherland-blasts-inability-to-vote-in-canadian-federal-elections



There are many citizens who live elsewhere for a multitude of reasons including health, job requirements etc. To assume that they are all immigrants who are trying to capitalize on citizenship is to hold a narrow view. Many expats still hold property and pay taxes in Canada. Not all you may argue and you'd be right. But if you were penalized for something others were doing, you'd be very angry.

Fyi....this has nothing to do with Harper but with the loss of the right to vote. This was actually started 22 years ago by Mulroney. It was wrong then and it is wrong now. If you are going to sling mud my way, at least get it right sir.

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