[fvc-wat-announce] Motion to Concur with Election Reform Committee Report

[Donald Fraser]

Nathan Cullen, in his recent gathering at KPL re the Parliamentary vote on
his "Motion to Concur with Election Reform Committee Report", indicated
that he had 20 'target' Liberal MPs who, in his opinion, might vote to
concur.

However, for reasons of his own, he did not want to reveal his list ...
maybe because he would be breaking one or many confidences.

I wanted to reach out to those 'target' MPs to encourage them to vote their
conscience, so today I have started to send the following Email to all
non-Cabinet MPs (assuming none of them are on his target list and might be
alarmed at its content)

Since the last mailout, I have had to update the mailing list I sent you
with all the changes in the Liberal Caucus. I have attached this new list
in case you want to use it. (.doc and .pdf)

cheers,
Don

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Hello (Liberal MPname),



I am writing to you concerning a coming motion in Parliament to “concur”
with the Report of the Electoral Reform (ER) Committee. Traditionally such
a vote has always been a free vote.



Voting to concur will allow the subject of ER to regain Parliamentary
attention. 88% of the contributors to the ER process recommended
Proportional Representation (PR) as Canada’s new means of choosing its MPs.



I am asking you to vote your conscience and recommend that the report be
accepted.



Just two short years ago the Liberal Party was in third place demonstrating
that our fickle First Past the Post (FPTP) system is unstable and subject
to emotional mood swings of the electorate. This causes many problems such
as the Policy Pendulum, strategic voting, discouraged and disenfranchised
voters, lack of long term planning etc.



With the growing danger of Trumpism spreading to Canada as evidenced in the
platforms of several Conservative leadership candidates, we need to protect
our country by introducing coalition government which is an almost
guaranteed outcome of PR.



Yours Truly,



Donald A Fraser

184 Forsyth Drive,

Waterloo, Ontario,

N2L-1A2,

donaldafraser at gmail.com

519-576-9210 <(519)%20576-9210>
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