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Originally Posted by Slava
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.
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Ah, so a made up scenario nobody proposed is stupid, cool, but you still can’t actually formulate a reason why the scenario is how it is and why we shouldn’t at least think about how it could be better.
“There is somewhere we draw the line.” Yes, Slava, the conversation is about where we draw the line, welcome to it. Perhaps you can move off that point and onto “should the line be drawn there,” to which you don’t seem to have given any thought at all outside of “well it’s already drawn there and the process seems fine to me!”
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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
100% agree. There's a well defined, non-onerous path to becoming a citizen should one choose. What problem is YYC Council trying to solve by allowing PR non-citizens to vote?
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What problem are you trying to solve by denying the right to vote to all people who live and pay taxes here? And make sure you say what you mean and don’t imply.