Published in
March 2016
- Page 31
Young people in Canada are opting out of the democratic process – and out of their communities more broadly. This has been a trend throughout the industrialized world since the late 1960s. Voter turnout rates can be taken as the litmus test for wider community disengagement. In the 2011 Canadian federal election, only 38.8 percent of young people aged 18-24 cast a ballot.1 When we compare this to general voter turnout of 61.1 percent in
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