A way to enforce democracy-compulsory voting
             According to the statistics from Statistics Canada, even though the total registered number of the electors has increased each year (from 1988 to the latest 2000), the percentage of electors who exercised their voting rights in the federal elections has decreased during the past four elections. The statistics showed that in 1988, the percentage of electors reached 75.66% (including 12 provinces, other than Nunavut); whereas in 1993, the percentage slid from 65.91% in 1997 to 67.65%. And the most recent one was the 2000 election with 61.55% (Statistics Canada). These figures implied the enthusiasm of participation towards election weakened over the past few years, and more importantly, as Andrew Coyne said "...the result has correspondingly less legitimacy, the government has less authority, and may well encourage others not to vote the next time (Coyne 284-285)". People who did not vote provided a lot of reasons such as the changes that come from the voting do not affect them; however, those are not the case in this paper. Rather, the topic focuses on the importance of compulsory voting to Canada.
             "Which is to say that the debate on whether voting should be made mandatory, touched off by the chief electoral officer's musings, is not so simply resolved (Coyne 284)", opponents argued that compulsory voting in Canada was incompatible with the existence of this democratic state, yet this paper is aim to prove that compulsory voting is immediately necessary if the percentage of the voter turnout keep on declining. Compulsory voting can be defined as a system of voting in which everyone entitled to vote is required to register as a voter, and at elections, to have their names marked off the electoral role as having received and returned the ballot paper (Jones 241). As follow, this paper illustrates three points to support this view-1. Voting is not only a right, but a...