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A private bill to give 16-year olds the vote is back in Parliament (piefed.ca)
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https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/bill/C-210/first-reading

Elections Canada research shows most adult voters oppose the measure: "Seven in ten respondents, 72 percent, disagreed."

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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No worse than the adult population. […]

At what age would you say that a child (ie someone that is not an adult) brain is equal, in terms of rationality (assuming that is a sufficient metric to gauge one's fitness for voting in an election), to that of an adult brain? Or are you saying that a child brain of any age is equal to an adult brain?