Life featureUncategorized

Rick Mercer: Take Your Kids With You When You Vote

Rick Mercer has always been an advocate for a legal voting age of 16. But in discussing the upcoming federal election, he was just as vocal about wanting Canadians to recognize their role in their young children’s experience with voting.

 

 

“I don’t know why my parents brought me to vote, I don’t know if they were conscious of the example they were setting or if it was just convenient because we were in the car, and they couldn’t leave us in the car, so they brought us in the gym. I don’t know why they did it, but I have many memories of doing it, and that’s how you learn by example.”

 

 

Mercer makes a good point; not just that showing is much more effective than telling when it comes to parenting, but that as voters, we should be concerned about how we can help our children both understand and identify their role as voters.

 

 

“So it’s not enough to just tell them to vote. If at all possible, if you can go home and get the kids and then go and vote instead of just doing it on your way home from work – which I know is the most convenient way. But if there’s anyway you can bring them, that will make a huge difference.”

 

 

Mercer comes to Ottawa on November 2nd as the host of  the Just For Laughs Comedy Night in Canada starring Ivan Decker, Debra DiGiovanni and Ali Hassan, where he will be doing some stand-up and introducing some other great Canadian comedians.

Photo: Jon Sturge, Mercer Report

Related posts
FeatureLife featureSportsSports feature

Bouncing Back: Ottawa Senators Winger Mathieu Joseph Finds Another Gear

As the 2023-24 NHL season approached last fall, the Ottawa Senators had a big problem. For the first…
Read more
Sports featureUncategorized

Reconnecting with Former Ottawa Senator Erik Condra

When the Ottawa Senators selected Erik Condra in the 2006 Draft, he was undoubtedly a prospect they…
Read more
Life feature

There's No Dispute About The Value Of ADR Ottawa's Steven Gaon

The Goldilocks Zone. As in the fairy tale, the one about the enterprising little girl who ventured…
Read more