Quebecers, what's the personal story behind how you're voting in the next federal election?

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We each ballot for antithetic reasons. We privation to perceive yours. Apply present to stock wherefore you consciousness truthful passionately astir that contented connected CBC Montreal.

We each ballot for antithetic reasons. We privation to perceive yours

Tamara Baluja · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 5:14 PM EST | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

A ample  yellowish  sticker connected  the crushed  that says “vote” with an arrow pointing up.

A motion directing voters to a polling presumption is taped to the sidewalk among autumn leaves, connected predetermination time of the 2019 national election, successful Ottawa, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

Sometime successful 2025, Canada volition person a national election. It could beryllium arsenic aboriginal arsenic this spring. 

We each ballot for antithetic reasons. And sometimes we take not to vote. CBC Montreal wants to marque definite your dependable is heard.

What's the 1 contented that matters the astir to you? Do you person a circumstantial idiosyncratic communicative that illustrates your experience?

We're looking for respective radical from Quebec to people their perspectives connected CBC. Not the aforesaid governmental talking heads, but existent radical with existent stakes.

To explicit your interest, delight capable retired this Google form

For example, you mightiness person utilized the nutrient slope for the archetypal clip and privation to constitute astir rising costs. Perhaps you're impacted by Quebec's secularism instrumentality and privation to constitute astir what you expect from the national parties. If you enactment successful Canada's biggest industries (such arsenic successful hospitals, restaurants and market stores, oregon connected operation sites), what's the biggest interest driving your vote? If you're choosing not to vote, what's the idiosyncratic crushed driving that decision?

If you consciousness similar your position isn't represented oregon heard on a nationalist stage, here's your accidental to assistance alteration that. Democracy is stronger erstwhile we perceive perspectives from crossed each of our communities. 

This is simply a paid penning accidental and you don't person to beryllium a nonrecreational writer. You'll beryllium invited to an optional half-day online penning store with maine — CBC's First Person shaper Tamara Baluja — and different editors from crossed the country. Then you'll enactment one-on-one with a CBC exertion to nutrient your piece.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tamara Baluja produces columns for CBC First Person, which showcases the idiosyncratic stories and experiences of Canadians successful their ain words. She is based successful Vancouver. She has antecedently worked arsenic a societal media exertion and newsman for CBC British Columbia. She's besides been portion of the societal media editorial teams for CBC Indigenous and CBC Olympics during Tokyo 2020. You tin email her astatine [email protected].

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