Sixteen to vote?

Age sixteen... you know, personally I wouldn't want my sixteen year-old self voting. The only opinion I had for Canadian politics at age sixteen was I wanted Harper out of government. I didn't even fully know why, I just didn't like listening to the guy. I also came from a very strong Liberal family. Really, I was just jumping on the Harper hating bandwagon. That's not a strong enough reason to choose Liberal; I wasn't educated to the slightest. I didn't know the intentions of the parties and I didn't know what my generation should be concerned for in the future. I knew the basics of parliament from my grade ten civics class, that's it.

I recently was listening to C.B.C. radio in my silver bullet Honda civic, and I heard an upset Conservative woman. She argued that the new young voters were just voting Liberal because of their rebellious mind, that they wanted to stick it to Harper. As much as I felt insulted, I also had to give her some credit. I had been that young voter... I don't even know if I have an educated vote now at age eighteen! There's something to say about being mature to vote. I'm not solid on the decision to keep voting at age eighteen, but my gut tells me the majority of sixteen year old's are just not ready.

Wow, now I'm really sounding like a Conservative.