Don’t trust the under 30s

Re “Lower the voting age to 16? Sure, but why stop there?” Andrew Coyne, March 21 Younger people are more emotional, easily led and manipulated t han older people, and lowering the voting age would overwhelmingly benefit the left and farleft.

I don’t believe that people mature earlier today than they did the last time this was an issue, and what with decades of garbage on television and the continual stressing of rights over responsibilities by our education system, I reckon we should raise the voting age to 25.

Wikipedia tells us that “In the United States, a person must be at least 35 to be President or Vice President, 30 to be a Senator, and 25 to be a Representative, as specified in the U.S. Constitution.”

I agree with that entirely, and Canada should enact similar provisions — plus increase the voting age, not lower it. Jeff Goodall, Oshawa, Ont.