Go Out And Vote!

A Brief Comment from Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper

Yes, many of us know that this provincial election hasn’t been one of the more engaging ones in history.

All one had to do was drive around the region and see the thin number of election signs compared to the forest of signs that decorated lawns in elections gone by. In my neighbourhood in Thorold, Ontario, I sometimes have to go driving two or three blocks before I see sign for a candidate from any of the parties. There are more realtors’ ‘For Sale’ signs on the lawns of peoples’ homes in my neighbourhood than there are election signs.

Yet, we face tough and challenging times in this region and province, and which ever party that is elected to govern Ontario for the next four years will have no choice but to face them with answers we can only hope are in the best interest of all of us who live and work here.

That is why it is important that you take a little time out today to vote as thoughtfully as you can for the candidate you feel is most capable of rise to these challenges in a region that has serious hospital service concerns and that continues to suffer from one of the highest unemployment rates in all of Canada.

As for you younger people out there who are struggling to pay record-high college and university fees, and to find employment that will afford you a quality life of your own, don’t stay home on this voting day. Don’t let us find out a few days from now that the voting turnout among younger people in their 20s was somewhere around only 30 per cent. It is your future. Vote for it!

As of the time of this posting, you have about eight hours left to do your duty as a citizen in the kind of  democracy too many people around the world are dying for.