[fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Meet The Waterloo Candidates Tomorrow Night!

Wed May 30 13:06:37 EDT 2018

Heh, we have a National Council member coming from a long way away to work
on Schreiner's campaign next week.  And then, he's going to drive up to
Ottawa for the FVC AGM.  Which, you can, too!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fair-vote-canada-agm-2018-tickets-45842411888

For those who are maybe nervous about voting NDP, and cynical altogether, I
believe the BC-NDP just came through.  A two-part question, followed by
three options of PR.  Yippee!!!!  (My opinion only)

But I'm excited!  I'm looking forward to this year now!!  On the other
hand, the PEI referendum is an absolute joke.  And NOT funny!!  Have you
guys heard?  50% of people voting in ANOTHER election have to vote yes
(i.e., if the municipal elections have 60,000 votes and the referendum has
20,000 votes, you need 30,000 of those 20,000 to vote yes)  And if you
don't vote at all in the referendum, your non-vote counts on the 'no'
column.  Oh, and just in case, you also have to have 60% support of the
ridings.  (27 ridings means above-calculated yes votes in 14 of them)  In
case that wasn't hedging their bets enough, both the yes side and the no
side get $75,000 of government money.  There can be any number of groups
who can qualify for the yes side and the no side.  So if 20 people at five
people per group choose to say they'd like to be on the yes side, that is
$15,000 the FVC-PEI team gets to spend.  No telling if the other four
qualified yes advertisers will spend wisely, have a clue what they are
doing, aren't really no side supporters, etc.  And our team can't spend any
more, or advocate for PR until the next *Provincial election!*  How's that
for silencing opponents?  The money these Liberals will spend to NOT give
us what we want is astounding.  I mean, saying no at the outset doesn't
cost anything.  Not campaigning on changing the voting system costs even
less.

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Catherine Campbell <cdcampbell9 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Guelph Green hq 163 Suffolk, GUELPH
>
> On May 30, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Jennifer Ross <2jennross at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, I want a minority and if this keeps up we'll overshoot the mark the
> way we did Federally.  And look where THAT got us!  I still haven't
> completely made up my mind, but if splitting the NDP vote with the Greens
> means a Conservative candidate, in Kitchener Centre I'm okay with that.
> Not if it means a Doug Ford government of course, but that is looking less
> likely by the day!  Horwath is up five points and Ford lost five points
> since the final debate, according to this poll:  https://www.macleans.ca/
> politics/the-macleans-pollara-ontario-election-poll-the-ndp-
> lead-keeps-growing/
>
> Jenn
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Catherine Campbell <
> cdcampbell9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Voters should vote to get the government that will deliver most closely
>> the policies they want. Voters don’t know and most never meet their elected
>> representatives. So who cares about the local candidate. Doug Ford and his
>> gelding candidates will do what Conservatives always do in office which is
>> the opposite of my idea of good government. So I voted for Catherine Fife
>> in Waterloo because she is the only one who can defeat the PC candidate and
>> his  large number of Conservative Waterloo voters. In KC, I heard last week
>> that Verneille is polling at 7 percent. So the NDP candidate there is the
>> best way to avoid Ford’s  $6 billion tax cuts.  The CAA about two months
>> ago told its members to lobby politicians to quickly fix potholes to save
>> their precious status symbol vehicles from expensive repairs. The first
>> step is to vote people to Queens Park who won’t cut $6 billion from the
>> budget. Who cares that you have to vote NDP in KC instead of Liberal or
>> Green?
>>
>> On May 30, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Catherine Campbell <cdcampbell9 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Has Dan Weber been avoiding all candidates meetings?
>>
>> On May 30, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Jennifer Ross <2jennross at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So far the only one that has attended, as I understand it, is Kitchener
>> Centre's Mary Henein Thorn.  Who is truly a lovely woman and good on her!!
>> Too bad her leader is a complete disaster.
>>
>> But here's the thing.  We want local representation!  We can't have PR
>> because our local isn't so local that way, and so we are willing to put up
>> with all the problems of FPTP just so we can have local representation!!!!!
>>
>> The Kitchener Conestoga guy was appointed so even registered PCs may not
>> have met him.  All the Conservative big signs that I've seen so far,
>> including this one, do not have the candidates picture on them unlike most
>> every other party.  And they don't show up in public.  And in this case,
>> the guy has the same name as the last guy--but its a different guy!  So how
>> much value does local representation have when you either, have no idea who
>> this person is, or, think you are voting for someone else?
>>
>> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Catherine Campbell <
>> cdcampbell9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Did the PC candidate attend. I read in the newspaper that PC candidates
>>> province wide are avoiding the small candidates meetings. If you people
>>> want to prevent a leader becoming premier and his party with policies
>>> contrary to Fair Vote, go vote today, Wednesday, May 30 at the advance
>>> polls which are open until 8pm. Stop talking about reforming elections and
>>> go vote in this election.
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2018, at 7:33 AM, Donald Fraser <donaldafraser at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> can you believe I forgot to go ... and it was on my calendar ....
>>> arggggggh
>>>
>>> On 28 May 2018 at 22:20, Sharon Sommerville <sharonsommerville at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello FairVoters,
>>>>
>>>> The third All Candidates Meeting will be tomorrow night in Waterloo.
>>>> So far the turn out and response to the discussion format has been
>>>> tremendous.  Tomorrow evening we will be talking about Income Security,
>>>> Housing, the Environment, Health Care and Democratic Reform.
>>>>
>>>> Join us at 6 pm at First United Church ( William & King) for an
>>>> engaging & important evening.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Sharon
>>>>
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