Watching 100% of the Canadian voters participate in a Federal election.

Please allow me to point out 100% of Canada's eligible voters contribute
to a federal election: 38% vote Conservative, 28 each for the NDP and
Libs, a few vote for the PQ and Green parties.
But the largest
voting block are the voters who stay home. That group exercises it's
constitutional right. However, we in the poverty of our education have
not been taught the most important fact about abstaining: An abstaining
vote is a vote for the majority. That is a fundamental democratic
principal that no one is willing to talk about. Most Canadians have
never thought about that, and we as a society haven't bothered to teach
them. Ironically, those who foam at the mouth the most about majority
governments are most likely the same ones who have ingrained antipathy
in those who stay home. We teach it in our schools, we support it in
our media, but take no responsibility for it at the ballot box.

As my children grew up, I challenged their reticence to vote.  I said something like, if you didn't vote and your friends didn't vote, what would happen if a real bad guy won the election.  Would you be more happy or less happy about that?  Since you never voted, your democratic rights allowed you to abstain, in fear perhaps, or in antipathy, or confusion.  Abstaining allows a citizen to criticize a selection irregardless of who it is that wins the election.  There is a certain smugness in that, but in truth all citizens either actively or passively decide the vote.  The passive side in democratic language says they either don't care who governs them, or perhaps object to "all of the above", but in the end by abstaining declare they will accept what the rest of Canada wants.  You are saying you are with the 38% of the vote who wins the house.  Therefore, if you add 50% of any abstaining vote to the winners of the majority, you can quickly see they have actually won 85% of the vote in Canada.

If you can live with that, then its fine, you have after all demonstrated your democratic right to abstain.  You know you are in effect saying I will go along with the majority of voters decisions.   To consider this a nil vote simply is not true.  However to vote, is to indicate you want only one direction for your country to go.   And, if that puts you in a minority position and your guy doesn't win, you have actively  been a part of the exercise in democracy.  Surely that is preferable to being under a government that came into being because of the abstaining vote of the country.