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

[Jennifer Ross]

It is called the Keep your Promise Tour :)

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Jay Judkowitz <judkowitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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