June 15th, 2009 - We’re Divided Enough
by Rudyard GriffithsViews for this post: 1,241
Last week, Toronto Mayor David Miller revived one of his favourite hobbyhorses, voting rights for non-citizens, and promptly provoked yet another conflict with his city’s voters. After advocating, at a forum convened by the City Hall, that permanent residents should be allowed to vote in municipal elections, the Mayor was excoriated in the media, and rightly so. Voting rights for non-citizens isn’t simply a dumb idea — it is downright pernicious.






Jack Mitchell is a poet and writer living in Toronto, author of two novels for young adults and a Canadian epic poem. His work has appeared in Geist, the National Post, and the LRC. He is a graduate of McGill University and of Stanford University.