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

[Jay Judkowitz]

That would work for me :-)  I hope Mr. Cullen puts his marketing hat on.
He needs to make this easy for the press to cover and for readers to digest.

On May 6, 2017 1:45 PM, "Jennifer Ross" <2jennross at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keep your Promise?
>
> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM, 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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