[fvc-wat-disc] Feb 1 Letter

[Donald Fraser]

it went to roughly 450 newspapers ... some from really small communities
from some of which I got the message "editor not in today ... back next
week" ...

I used a big list  (attached) of editor emails which may be useful to us
... it's a bit out of date as several emails came back, but most of the
addresses are OK

On 27 January 2018 at 14:15, Cathy Scott <cathy.scottfree at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great letter, Don. I saw it in The Record.
> Cathy Scott
>
> 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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