I've tried to grab a couple of questions from Twitter, which I posed earlier today, about the voting age being lowered, for which we had cross-partisan support to do in my first year in Parliament.
One fellow writes, “You can easily influence more 16-year-olds with lies than truth. Lies are easy.” I'm taking a quote from Twitter that's not particularly supportive of my own position, a quote implying that we cannot trust young people. Yet, I think that in this country, with a letter, you can be brought into the army at the age 17—which goes to Mr. Reid's point about the history of the United States—yet we don't allow them to vote until they're 18. So young people in Canada could actually be in a war that they had no say in whatsoever, never mind the sacrifice they may have to pay.
This tweet says that young people are easily influenced at 16, that we shouldn't do it and shouldn't ask them.