Watch Grimes’ Canadian Election PSA
Sometimes Grimes gets frustrated with the media for aggregating what she posts on her Tumblr, but in this case hopefully she appreciates the signal boost. She’s been extremely vocal about the importance of the upcoming election in Canada, and today she shared a video once again highlighting the issue:
Looks like she got into the Halloween spirit a bit with that… contact lens? Along with the video she posted the following message:
ok this is the worst most embarrassing video ever but i was really tired and trying to read off a cue card, but I’m blind. anyway, voter registration for Canadians ends really soon! It’s so important that everyone vote in the upcoming election. Harper threatens poor canadians, arts funding, refuses to look into the missing and murdered indigenous women and seems to have a deep allegiance to the oil industry (among a million other things). I know a lot of you don’t believe in democracy or voting, but so much of what we hold dear as Canadians is under threat.
An important part of voting this time is voting strategically, since the Liberals and NDP are splitting the vote. unfortunately, conservative government can win without a majority because the other parties split the vote. If you live in one of the ridings below, you can follow this chart to vote strategically in order to kick out conservative gov! i hope this is helpful and not too confusing, and i apologize again to non- Canadians who I am accidentally bombarding with election info. much love! xxxxx
Here’s the chart: