Three of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence. It's just that any system of government has it pluses and minuses and it's important to… - Elizabeth May

C-10 is such a nightmare, because we're going to have a ton of amendments. And I can't present them unless I'm physically there.

You can’t deal with an issue like climate change if you basically abandon a healthy democracy and allow a corporatist culture to make the decisions. So you need engaged citizens, and you need Occupy,” she says. “You need people who have never seen themselves as political to become political. We need maybe 15 to 20 percent of Canadians to become really engaged and demand better. And then we’ll get it.”

Countries with high voting rates also have high levels of political knowledge.