GPV Social Studies teachers delivered the Student Vote Program created by the non-partisan organization CIVIX Canada, then visit the mock polling station staffed by student volunteers set-up in the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The students cast their ballots for those they felt would best represent them in Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook and as Prime Minister of Canada on Sept. 20. They did this after doing some research previously on each party and their ideas for Canada and the riding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacob Van Buskirk; Oliver Smith; Geneva Hudgins; Sarah Hughes; and Haya Outa Bachi answered a few questions of their participation in the Fall River school\u2019s Student Vote election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Jacob said he enjoyed showing people how to vote, while Oliver was happy to help staff the polling station in the Llewellyn Library. They understand the importance of voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe know it’s important because, if you don’t vote, then it could be a whole different change in the election. That one extra vote could make a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe also have a right to vote, so we should probably use it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two were asked how they chose whoever they voted for in the mock election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI chose what I wanted for the community and Canada in general, and what he or she said, what they promised,\u201d said Jacob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oliver agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat’s how I chose too,\u201d he said. \u201cWe looked at what they were promising, and I thought of what I wanted for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two feel the experience gives them a better understanding of the process for when the time comes that they can indeed cast a ballot that counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI know voting is important now because I didn’t know much about voting before this and I learned a lot from StudentVote,\u201d said Jacob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI didn’t really know much about how it worked or even the candidates or anything. I now understand what voting is and definitely will take advantage of the opportunity in the future,\u201d added Oliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”133″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Geneva enjoyed educating her fellow classmates on the importance of voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was great being able to help other students understand voting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She based her vote on the candidate she felt would best serve the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI chose based on what they were going to be doing and how they were going to help, going to be helping people and people in the community and all through Canada,\u201d said Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah Hughes enjoyed putting the ballot in, casting her vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was cool to mark my choice on a piece of paper and then vote,\u201d said Sarah outside GPV with a teacher by her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said they learned a lot on what MP\u2019s and the federal government does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe did some research on who we were voting for,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Haya said she enjoyed participating in the StudentVote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI got the feel of what it’s like to be in one of the elections,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She learned the importance of how every vote matters. That\u2019s one thing she told other students as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI got to help people understand how to vote and teach people the basics of voting and how they could do it in the future when they become of age in the federal election,\u201d said Haya<\/p>\n\n\n\n The results of the local and Canada-wide Student vote elections will be released upon the closing of all polls in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”95″] [adrotate banner=”127″] FALL RIVER: Grade 8 students at Georges P. Vanier Junior learned the values of why voting in an election is important during their participating in the mock Student vote federal election. GPV Social Studies teachers delivered the Student Vote Program created by the non-partisan organization CIVIX Canada, then visit the mock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[685,12,957],"tags":[773,2,368,2584],"class_list":["post-23663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-featured","category-news","tag-election","tag-fall-river","tag-georges-p-vanier-junior-high","tag-studentvote21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_6911-1024x683.jpg\")
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