Petition To Lower Voting Age

Liberal Party organizers are petitioning the Commons to give high schoolers the vote. The petition’s sponsor Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (Beaches-East York, Ont.) was one of 20 Liberal MPs to support an identical private bill three years ago: “Extending the voting age to 16 would empower a new generation to participate in democracy while still in school.”

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