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

[Donald Fraser]

I made up the name ... I put it in quotes because it was long ... Cullen
hasn't introduced it yet ... he indicated the end of May was his
approximate target date

On 6 May 2017 at 13:22, Jay Judkowitz <judkowitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm worried about public visibility on this.
> "Motion to Concur with Election Reform Committee Report" shows up in 0
> searches in news.google.ca and on twitter
>
> Is there some popular (and digestible) name for this that we can mail and
> tweet about and talk to neighbors about?  How would the average Canadian
> citizen know this is happening and that they can still influence the
> outcome?
>
> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Donald Fraser <donaldafraser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> ===============================
>>
>> 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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