Topic: 2025-Preserving Free and Fair Elections
Country: Canada
Delegate Name: Noah Bossingham
Canada is very passionate about preserving fair and free elections and works hard day and night preserving our elections. Canada believes that ensuring a fair and free election is the only way to ensure democracy in any nation while ensuring basic human rights such as freedom of speech, assembly, and information.
Ensuring a Fair and Free election has been a problem since elections have been a thing. And is protected in the UN in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which states in Article 21 “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.”
Having Fair and Free elections is important due to the fact that when elections are interfered with they can cause a figure to take power in which the people didn’t want to and in which they can cause problems inside the country.
Canada has and will continue to preserve Fair elections and will continue to suggest other countries do too by suggesting solutions such as making sure all people know how to and can vote with neutral assistance.
Works Cited
“Canada’s plan to protect democracy – Democratic Institutions.” Canada.ca, 28 January 2025, https://www.canada.ca/en/democratic-institutions/services/protecting-democracy.html. Accessed 13 February 2025.
“Free and Fair Elections.” Elections Canada, 14 January 2025, https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=libre&document=index&lang=e. Accessed 13 February 2025.
“Preserving Free and Fair Elections.” Preserving Free and Fair Elections, 2025, https://glica.org/simun/committees/unodc-fair-elections/. Accessed 13 02 2025.
