No one can be too busy or disengaged to vote in this election.

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Monday is the election day that may well define Canada, and all of you out there have a duty to vote.

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I cast my ballot on the second day of the advance vote because the queue of people on the Friday was so long, I couldn’t wait. I have voted for about 20 years at the very same south-end community centre, and had never seen such a long line. It snaked from inside a hall in the community centre to the parking lot, and a friend who braved it said it took him about an hour to vote.

Interestingly, my friend is apolitical, but his commitment to waiting an hour to vote told me that something of an earthquake is erupting in the body........

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