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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
(sorry for the devastating personal attack)
Pepsifree has certainly been unduly antagonistic by sprinkling a dash of snark in each of his well researched and reasoned posts. It's too bad that perennially online people who feel the need to point out that perennially online people are not a representative sample of humanity or in-person interactions also seem to be really thin skinned and revert to pointing out that perennially online people are not a representative sample of humanity whenever a topic challenges their preconceived notions. Because complaining about how other people engage in a topic is way more fun that engaging in a topic. Or something.
Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen anyone proffer an actual counter argument here beyond: 'Citizenship is the line, because of course citizenship is the line and it's absurd to consider anything else.'
What is the actual threat here? 46.38% of citizens turned out to vote last time. Are PR's really so different than the rest of us? PR's who aren't fully committed to life here are going to go out of their way to vote because...queues are fun? That threat certainly seems a valid reason to deny any say to engaged and committed PR's who haven't quite finished jumping through all of the bureaucratic hoops [even though apparently it is the fastest and easiest process ever which is something really neat I learned in this thread]? |
Good grief that reasoning is beyond stupid. How about everyone, everywhere just go and vote when you are not an actual citizen of that country. Brocade guaranteed there are many rules and ordinances I do not agree with in many places in the world, so I should be able to vote for what I want as my type of representation in any country I want, even though I don’t live there and have zero plans to become a full citizen.
The Calgary council should be all axed entirely for voting in such a stupid election law. They are fully undermining what a democratic society is suppose to be. Fire them all.