[fvc-wat-disc] Feb 1 Letter

[Sharon Sommerville]

Thank you Donald. The letter is excellent and greatly appreciate the time
and thought that went into crafting it.

I will put the letter onto the FVCyahoo group email and ask folks to look
out for it in their communities.  How many papers did it go to?

Cheers,
Sharon

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Donald Fraser <donaldafraser at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all ... just sent the following letter to every newspaper in Canada as
> promised
>
> It's a bit risky because one can lose one's letter writing privileges to
> favourite recipients if found out, but the content was of national concern,
> so there is a basis for forgiveness if discovered
>
> cheers,
> Don
>
> ==================================================================
>
> Dear Editor,
>
>
>
> Re: First Anniversary of the Liberal Broken Election Reform Promise
>
>
>
> On February 1, we remember sadly the first anniversary of Justin’s broken
> election promise who pledged so enthusiastically in his campaign that the
> 2016 election was the last under our antiquated “First-past-the-post”
> (FPTP) system. FPTP gave Harper a majority in 2011 with only 39.4% of the
> vote and gave Trudeau his present majority with only 39.6%.
>
>
>
> In truth, the PM did not promise Proportional Representation (PR) which is
> the only fair system that makes every vote count equally by giving each
> Party the same percentage of seats in Ottawa as their votes won in the
> election. He did promise to look “fully and fairly” at our electoral system
> but, as became clear later, he actually preferred ranked ballot which under
> most models would have given the Liberals, the centrist party of Canada,
> in excess of 200 seats instead of the 184 they received at election time.
>
>
>
> During the election reform process, over 80% of the submissions made by
> interested and informed individuals across Canada indicated a decisive
> preference for PR. PR in Canada would almost certainly result in
> cooperative non-majority government and continuity in policy as opposed to
> the “policy pendulum” in which each new government cancels or guts the
> legislation of the previous one at great expense.
>
>
>
> We need the stability of good long term planning, cooperation among MPs
> and sound, robust policy that PR brings.
>
>
>
> Let us all insist on this change for the better.
>
>
>
>
>
> Yours Truly,
>
> Donald A Fraser,
>
> 184 Forsyth Drive,
>
> Waterloo, Ontario,
>
> N2L-1A2.
>
> donaldafraser at gmail.com
>
>
>
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