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Ensuring Voters Vote

Part 6. The Election

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In Ensuring Voters Vote Nash stresses the importance of making sure people actually vote. Nash does this by discussing advance polls, election days, and the role of candidates in ensuring people voting.

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Peggy Nash

Peggy Nash is an advocate for labour rights and social justice in Canadian politics and the labour movement, as a long-time senior negotiator for the CAW (now Unifor). A former president of the federal New Democratic Party, she was a candidate for leader after the untimely death of Jack Layton. A candidate in several federal elections, she served as a Member of Parliament and was named Official Opposition Industry and Finance Critic. Nash is an educator, a frequent media commentator, a founding member of Equal Voice and a co-founder of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Women in the House program.