s was never taught in elementary of high school education. It was maybe mentioned every once and again in conversation but graduation came and left fellow classmates and myself uninformed, uneducated and uninterested in political process and parties. Individuals scattered throughout the system will inevitably become interested and pursue individually but as a whole the education system of Canada fails in making the youth interested in politics and election censuses show these products. The government has started to notice this trend and have started putting together events such as "Rush the Vote" campaign which is aimed at as organizer Paul Green states "making sure that youth turn out to vote this election" (Toronto Star). To do this the campaign draws upon popular musicians who appeal to many spectrums of youth interest to get the youth interested in the political process. If these events do succeed to appeal to the youth and interest them enough to participate and vote, then the future of lowering the voting age seems brighter. Without evidence that the youth will in fact vote and take care with their decisions the politicians will inevitably find it unnecessary to change anything.In other foreign countries such as Iraq, the voting age is 16. There are both good and bad aspects of this difference noticeable when looking at the results and strategies of their elections and politicians. In Iraq their democratic system is much different then ours in Canada. There is a huge variety of candidates with thousands of politicians fighting for a small number of seats. Violence is common in the politics of Iraq which makes it visibly seem more important to their people than we (as the people of Canada) believe. The varieties of politicians have an array of different strategies. One of these is to appeal to the young by listening to their demands and making promises to be kept or forgotten. This can be seen in two ways, the politicians could be...
