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La participation des jeunes aux élections | Véronique Joly | TEDxYouth@BeauboisCollege


hello my name is high year that
pretty 57% according to radio-canada this other
youth participation between 18 and 24
years in the 2015 federal election
so 43% of young people are not voting there
during this election
but this other youth participation
during the elections does not date from yesterday
indeed the lowest rate of
participation since 1919 was observed
in the 2008 provincial election
following this catastrophic result the
Chief Electoral Officer
québec commissioned a study at
laval university to understand
reasons for citizens’ abstention
yet gib to go to vote
one of the first reasons given by
this study was history had not
the feeling that their important votes
so how could we change
our electoral system to go up the
participation of young people in
elections and then I remembered that a
reform of the voting system had already
been in bordeaux federal per match in
our minister of canada justin trudeau
during his 2000 election campaign
km mum cleaning in front of being hand
problematic tails of my interest
facing the politics that I developed
this friend is studying the history of quebec
and my experience in the parliament of
young people who is a simulation of
The national assembly
go back to my problematic it takes
first seize the operation of a
voting system which is the same post
federal than provincial since the
creation of canada we use the
same system
indeed since 1867 we use a
first-past-the-post voting system
first we have to understand how
works so we divided into 5
years that are the wrong breeding ground according to the
population movement in an election
each party can present a self
candidates by constituency
the candidate getting more votes
becomes to avoid this constituency
and the party getting more seats at
parliament
motivated the government post but
is that the disadvantages of our de
security of which we examine the results
the 2014 provincial election on
Liberal Party of Quebec
get 56% of the seats while he did
got that 42% of the votes the cars
let’s talk about the popular vote here but no
Federal during the 2015 elections
the liberal party of canada got 54%
seats while they held only 40%
votes
there is a major difference between the name
of seats the number of votes obtained this
agreement can make the difference between
majority governments or
minority
here our current voting method brings
an over representation of the party
winner a sub-representation of
opposition parties
but more particularly how in
the current voting system affected our
generation the z generation
let’s look at what the vice president said
green party daniel green the order
concerning the federal election of
2015 we receive only 58 % of the votes
expressed in October 2015 in Quebec did not
not jump side I call that boots
trash it’s votes that do not have
counted it’s people who could have
stay at home
force me to participate then when we
think 58 percent of the popular vote
were not counted in Quebec then nothing
even more so difficult problem
motivate us young people
the future generation z go vote if we
know that our vote is not worth
today for you I have a solution
a mixed proportional voting system
compensatory measures that could
remedy all the problems of the factories
also previously
so you have to understand that in a mode of
mixed ballot we divide our process
electoral system in two parts 50% of the 10
pts and would be elected the same way that
so currently according to me ballot
first-past-the-post
so the candidate getting the most
votes in his constituency to become
deputy of this one the great novelty
of the solution comes with the use
a proportional voting system
indeed the other 50% of the deputies
parliament would be elected
this long proportional process so
an example to explain you more
clearly more clearly my solution
currently the House of Commons of the
canada there are 3,138 MPs
my solution with 169 MPs
would be elected according to the mode
proportional
so if we apply the results
of 2015 federal elections
the liberal party of canada got 40%
of the popular vote
he would have got 60.8 of the 169 seats
available by poll
proportional the benefits now
my solution has two major advantages the
50% of the Parliament it had according to a mode of
uninominal a turn grant
importance to the votes of the regions and
the other 50% of the parliament that would be him
this long proportional process allows
a pale a better performance
parliamentary popular votes but
especially change our voting system
can change the negative perception of
hygiene is based on our system
electoral and trust
additional to our institutions
when we would have parliament more
representative of the voting intentions of the
electorate
finally the only witness of the
environmental degradation
of inequality the evolution of the
technology and others like the actor
to take action to solve all these problems
the government
change goes through our
government the ruling party can
draft bills to settle
and dine injustices if we want
that a vision is transmitted through
your bills or the topics covered
in parliament we must have the
parliament representing the opinion
public
opting for a voting system
proportional mixed compensatory
chance in writing my text this
evening he got me from montech it’s my
tonight’s presentation the coalition
future québec add to their place
their intention to modify modify
our of this criterion for it to become
mixed as what to consult young people what
is not a bad idea
what do you think
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