[fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Roundtable onDemocratic ReformPlanning Meeting

[Alida and George]

Thanks Anita.  I thought for a moment there that I was losing it.  :)

Best
George
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> Thanks for the feedback, George. Sometimes my messaging doesn't resonate 
> with
> everyone - I'm an average person not a politician. I'm trying to say: This 
> was
> what happened at their event (you can read between the lines my assessment 
> of
> it's worthiness, now let's have our own and make it real!
>
> Anita
>
> Quoting Alida and George <burrettga at golden.net>:
>
>> Stephen Fletcher with local Conservative MPs and a numbr of professors
>> appear at a "roundtable on democratic reform."
>>
>> Do you understand what a joke that had to have been ...as perceived by a
>> Canadian audience watching an ever more controlled, unresponsive,
>> unrepresentative government in action over the summer.
>>
>> If the "conservatives of course oppose proportional representation,"  why 
>> in
>> the devil do you lead off an invitation to discuss that very subject with 
>> an
>> account of their staged event?
>>
>> Get real please.
>>
>> George
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <lanickerson at b2b2c.ca>
>> To: <fvc-wat-announce at listserv.thinkers.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:41 PM
>> Subject: [fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Roundtable on Democratic
>> ReformPlanning Meeting
>>
>>
>> > Hi Fair Vote supporters! After our two awesome, well attended events 
>> > this
>> > spring
>> > - and a summer of having booths at the Multicultural Festival, 
>> > NonViolence
>> > Festival and Tribute to Woodstock - we're planning our first fall Fair
>> > Vote/CAPP sponsored event!
>> >
>> > As you may recall from a few weeks ago, Minister Stephen Fletcher
>> > (Minister of
>> > Democratic Reform), with local Conservative MP's Braid and Woodworth, 
>> > held
>> > a by
>> > invitation only "roundtable on democratic reform" in Kitchener in 
>> > August.
>> > Fletcher has been travelling Canada holding these "roundtables." A 
>> > couple
>> > of
>> > our local Fair Vote group were invited, plus quite a number of local
>> > professors. Regular voters were not allowed (no room). The Fair Vote
>> > attendees
>> > reported that Fletcher mainly wanted to talk about the Conservative 
>> > plan
>> > to add
>> > more seats to the House of Commons for Ontario, BC, and Alberta. He 
>> > also
>> > wanted
>> > to get the professor's ideas about increasing voter turnout and took 
>> > their
>> > contact information afterwards (he was not interested in getting anyone
>> > else's
>> > contact info). The impression of the Fair Vote members that attended 
>> > was
>> > that
>> > other kinds of electoral reform were not on the agenda and were not 
>> > going
>> > to
>> > make it into the report - the Conservatives of course oppose 
>> > proportional
>> > representation and it was dealt with as a "dead issue" to which they 
>> > had
>> > no
>> > comment.
>> >
>> > We have had a number of good ideas for our next CAPP/Fair Vote 
>> > sponsored
>> > event,
>> > and having our own "roundtable on democratic reform", perhaps with
>> > speakers in
>> > which different ideas for democratic renewal/reform are presented and
>> > discussed
>> > with public participation, is one of them. Other ideas are most 
>> > welcome,
>> > too!
>> >
>> > I hope you will consider joining our planning group to create this 
>> > event
>> > on
>> > Wednesday September 8, 7:30 PM, at the Queen Street Commons Cafe 
>> > (downtown
>> > Kitchener across from the Working Centre).
>> >
>> > Your support and input to make this happen is most appreciated!
>> >
>> > Anita
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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