why don't people participate in politics

I think people don't participate in politics because they don't have time or they don't feel like their vote will count or they just aren't educated well enough. The main thing that gives everyone the opportunity to participate in politics is voting and elections and that's because in Canada gives every citizen over the age of 18 to vote for whomever they please in any election. If someone gets asked if they voted or who they voted for, (on average, 40% of Canadians do not vote in federal elections) they will say that they were too busy that night or something was going on, but in reality it is because they are uneducated about all the things that go on in Canada or because they can't make it on time because most elections are held on business days instead of non-working days. I think that every Canadian should know about all the things that go on in our country because it is more likely that the country will be run better by someone who was voted in by people who know what they had been offering and for which reasons they voted for that person, as opposed to someone voted in by half of Canada's population that actually vote, whom of which might not even know what they are voting for. If everyone knew who and what they were voting for, the whole world could be a much better place, especially in those countries who give their people the right to vote for whoever they please.