I Will Put My High Five On Hold Sheila Until.......

.......the dismal turnout at voting booths improves. 48% of the eligible voters did not excercise their right to vote in the provincial election and within that group their had to be a large group of woman.
Gimme five for equality
By SHIELA COPPS

Tomorrow is the most historic day in Canada for the majority of our citizens. Yet most of us know nothing about it.

It is not about the throne speech. It is not about internal angst in the Liberal Party.

It is about the right to vote accorded to Canadian women on Oct. 18, 1929. Not surprisingly this story of equality remains largely untold. How many students can name the five women who got the vote? How many know it came by successfully appealing a negative Supreme Court decision to the British Privy Council?

Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby and Nellie McClung are the Famous Five whose belief in a woman's right to full personhood laid the groundwork for all Canadian women to sit in the Canadian Senate, and by extension, vote in elections.

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