Student Vote 2019

Over 360 Kelvin students took part in Student Vote Canada 2019, a nation-wide,  authentic-learning program that provides students with the opportunity to experience the voting process firsthand and practice the habits of active and informed citizenship.  The vote took place on the Friday before October's federal election, and the day after over 100 students met with electoral candidates from four different political parties (of the six invited).  The results at Kelvin:  an NDP minority government (with 44% of the vote), with Liberals in second place (23%) and the Green Party third, with 20% of the ballots cast in their favour.  Conservatives, Christian Heritage and People's Party of Canada polled 6%, 4% and 3% respectively among Kelvin students.  Nationally, over one million students elected a Liberal minority government when ballots were counted using a riding by riding (first past the post) count, but actually produced a tie in the popular vote between Conservatives and NDP votes, at 25% each.  All in all, the exercise in democracy provided excellent discussion fodder for students of Canada in the Contemporary World (grade 9) and Histoire canadienne (11e année) to consider.  Thanks go out to Kelvin's human rights collective, HASTA, for organizing Student Vote Canada 2019.​