This past Wednesday was the Ontario election and I went and voted like a good citizen of a democratic nation. The only problem was that I did not know the candidates nor the issues involved (well aside from funding faith-based schools) because I had not been paying attention; I had trouble identifying who the candidate was for the party I wanted to vote for — but fortunately for me they wrote the party underneath the candidate name (hey there was a Green Party candidate in my riding). So while the expensive marketing targeted at young people did get me to exercise my constitutional right, which seems to be the primary goal of the campaigns; it failed in getting me involved with what truly matters — governance and the direction of the nation.
Although to be honest, the real reason I voted was to take part in the referendum because I actually read through the MMP brochure and thought that the Mixed Member Proportional was a good idea. Of course, it ended up failing the bid. I can’t help but wonder whether some voters may have gotten weird signals. You were supposed to mark an X beside your vote, but a big X means a negative, and given a two-answer question, I can see that it may confuse some people.
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