Today’s lower voter turnout linked to death of Reform Party

Elections Canada discovered Canadians who voted for the first time in the Reform campaign of '93 now avoid the polls in droves; turnout for that generation fell to 38 per cent.

It's agreed then; the campaign is a race to the bottom. Turnout by all accounts will be dismal. It has dropped like a stone since 1993. There is a reason for this. I found it buried in a cardboard box of news clipping, yellowed and Scotch-taped.

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