[fvc-wat-announce] [fvc-wat-disc] Our Meeting With Raj Saini

[Sharon Sommerville]

Hi Stu,

Thanks for your kind words and for sending a thank you to Raj.  FVC-WR will
send a thank you letter next week and yours will be a welcome addition.

And, thank you for being there on Friday.  Your conversation was an
important and powerful contribution to the meeting.

Kind regards,
Sharon



On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM, STUART CHANDLER <stuchandler43 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks so much Sharon.
>
> Thanks for all your efforts (and those of others) in gathering the
> signatures, organizing our visit with Raj, and sending out this uplifting
> report. You are amazing!
>
> Your message has prompted me to decide to personally send a message to
> ‎Raj, thanking him for giving us the time, and for listening to all of so
> respectfully.  (As well as promising to present our petition in the House.)
>
> Thanks again.
> Best regards.
>
> Stu Chandler.
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.
> *From: *Sharon Sommerville
> *Sent: *Sunday, November 12, 2017 9:28 AM
> *To: *fvc-wat-announce at listserv.thinkers.org; fvc-wat-disc at listserv.
> thinkers.org
> *Reply To: *FVC Waterloo Region Discussion
> *Subject: *[fvc-wat-disc] Our Meeting With Raj Saini
>
> Hello Fairvoting Friends,
>
> On Friday afternoon, a group of nine of us meet with Raj Saini, (L) MP
> for Kitchener Centre. Nine folks pretty much fills Raj's office!  We
> presented Raj with this summer's petition which asked that his party keep
> their campaign promise and enact legislation to change our electoral system
> in time for 2019.  There were well over 500 signatures on the petition.
>
> Our message was strong, clear, passionate and respectful. Each of us had
> time to speak directly to Raj about why they care about electoral reform.
> Those comments were very powerful.
>
> People spoke about the inevitability of electoral reform as our own
> experience and recent polls (In late Oct. Insights West found that 67% of
> Cdns. want the Liberal government to keep its promise on electoral
> reform, in early Oct. Angus Reid found the same) & the evidence that
> supports change, one of us emphasized that this is a legacy issue as his
> father before him established by patriating our Constitution and raised
> the question of what side of history do you and your party want to be on?,
> one of us asked him, "I know, that you know that PR is the way to go to
> establish a fair electoral system, what happen?".  One of us asked, what
> can we do to help you support PR?.  One wanted to finally, after 40 years
> of voting, to be represented by someone they voted for.
>
>
> We addressed Trudeau's statement that the decision to renege on the
> promise of electoral reform was his to make and he made it because they
> weren't going to be able to institute Alternative Vote (June 2017, Iqaluit,
> Nunavut).  We raised the anti-democratic nature of that statement. Raj
> spoke about the threat of a referendum being the justification for not
> moving forward with electoral reform. We knew that because the Liberals
> were unwilling to negotiate with the NDP & Greens to bring about the ERRE
> recommendations, the NDP & Greens brokered a deal with the Conservatives.
> To bring in a majority report from the ERRE committee, the price was a
> referendum.
>
> Raj promised to present our petition to the House and speak with the
> Minister of Democratic Institutions about our concerns.  We thank Raj for
> taking those actions and for the respectful conversation we had on Friday.
>
> There is interest in putting a group together to speak with Bardish
> Chagger (L) Waterloo. If anyone is interested in going to meet with
> Minister Chagger, please let me know and we will arrange a meeting.  You
> can reach me at:
>
>  sharonsommerville at gmail.com
>
> A sincere thank you to the eight fair voting supporters who attended
> Friday's meeting.  Everyone's passion, honesty and determination is
> inspiring.
>
> Attached is a wonderful video of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come",
> just in case you need a little inspiration right now.  And, you can see a
> photo of our team outside Raj's office at FVC-WR's website.  The link is
> also attached.
>
> With thanks to all our supporters for your continued support as we work
> toward building a better Canada.
>
> Best wishes,
> Sharon
> for FVC-WR
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4
>
> http://www.fairvotewrc.ca/reminding-raj-saini-about-
> electoral-reform/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=
> 3528e8591d67497a803a18f64ef78a18&uid=756912124761370624&nid=244+272699400
>
>
>
>
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