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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Exactly, this mysterious “good reason” that you won’t explain is not good enough everywhere else, so why is it good enough here?
What benefit is there? I don’t know, it’s democratic, for one. It’s giving people who live here and pay taxes here say in what life here is like, which directly affects them. It engages more people to participate in our democracy.
What benefit is there to letting women vote? or people of different races? or poor people? These are people who couldn’t always vote. Today, depending where you go, some non-citizens can vote and some can’t, some places (in the US) don’t let prisoners vote even if they’re citizens. If non-citizens in the EU can vote, then why is “citizenship” the bar?
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Well there is somewhere we draw the line, right? Like you can't just have everyone over 18 (or 16 or whatever age0 who happens to be in Canada that day have a vote because that's obviously stupid. So we set the bar at citizenship, which by the way is not incredibly onerous. The path from PR to citizenship is well known and well used. If people are deciding that they don't want the citizenship and want to stick with the PR status, that's their decision and involves some tradeoffs. One of which is your vote.