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

[Bob Jonkman]

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I expect that further happenings about the ERRE Report will be listed
on the website at

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/ERRE/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9
013025

The report is officially entitled "Strengthening Democracy in Canada :
Principles, Process and Public Engagement for Electoral Reform" --
what you said about marketing!

- --Bob.


On 2017-05-06 01:52 PM, Jay Judkowitz 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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