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

[Jay Judkowitz]

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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