[fvc-wat-disc] agenda for Wednesday's meeting
Mary Jackes
mkj at bell.net
Tue Nov 24 16:26:27 EST 2020
Hi Anita,
There have been some changes in the CoC, and so things have been a bit
upside down for a year or more. You perhaps heard from Christina and
Ravi. At the moment there is no permanent ED - I'm glad they responded.
The national AGM is indeed in June. At the moment there is some work
going on regarding the role of chapters, so things are a bit up in the
air. And the number of staff is reduced.
Nationally, there is particular emphasis on things like the fisheries on
the east coast, pipe lines in the west, indigenous issues, especially.
Water and so on. Various issues immediately impacting the east, the
west, the north. Ford govt things in Ontario.
The chair of the board, John Cartwright, was speaking to us as a
regional members meeting, so the idea is that this would be an
Ontario/Quebec initiative. At the regional meeting several people spoke
about the provincial govt. re municipal ranked balloting.
Certainly, KW has several FVC and CoC cross membership people. But the
KW CoC is not very active at the moment - we need to see what happens at
the local KW AGM -16th Dec is the planned date. We will emphasize the
local FVC connection at our AGM and with the regional organizer. He is
on his own and working on something specific (forget what, just at the
moment). He doesn't have ER expertise. We could talk about the call for
a National Citizens Assembly at our local meeting.
Let's see what happens.
Thanks Anita,
Mary
On 2020-11-24 3:26 p.m., Anita Nickerson wrote:
> Hey everyone! Re: Council of Canadians.
>
> First, they are our longest time and most consistent civil society
> group ally.
>
> Recently one of our other FVC chapter leaders and C of C members,
> responding to a request for money from C of C, complained to them that
> they're not campaigning for electoral reform. This is the response he
> got from one of the "Supporter and Member Services" staff:
>
> /We are terrifically grateful for your generous support of the
> Council over the years./
>
> /I understand, I think, your frustration with the Council’s lack of
> “effort” in advocating for proportional representation. We absolutely
> do support PR and believe it to be a more truly democratic electoral
> system. That said, at this time, we simply don’t have the mandate and
> resources to undertake additional work in the area./
>
> /
> /
>
> A quick look through their website and a five minute view of their
> last AGM showed:
>
> - they have 28 staff
> - their annual budget is 3.8 million
>
> Soo.... every year apparently (Mary can confirm) chapter resolutions
> can go to their AGM.
>
>
> I suggested to this leader that several C of C chapters might like to
> put forward a resolution that C of C actively support FVC's call for a
> National Citizens' Assembly (either by promoting our campaign or their
> own push for it). The AGM isn't till June, so if this happens, it
> might not be in time for the next election.
>
> A lot of our chapter folks are ALSO in local C of C chapters - and
> they have been the most active on the ground with our teams - so I
> think there would be support for this.
>
> Anyway, two days ago, the C of C tweeted our card action - YAY!!
>
> https://twitter.com/CanadiansOrg/status/1330247176262471681
> <https://twitter.com/CanadiansOrg/status/1330247176262471681>
>
>
> I reached out to their two EDs to say thank you for the support and
> they responded.
>
>
> So that's where it's at.
>
>
> It's ALWAYS good to remind any group you're involved with why they
> should actively support PR :)
>
>
> Anita
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:49 AM Mary Jackes <mkj at bell.net
> <mailto:mkj at bell.net>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Cathy for the link to the webinar. I think I'll spend my
> evening with the webinar.
>
> We just had a Council of Canadians regional meeting with some
> interesting national input. The chairman of the board suggested
> that we all work on childcare and pharmacare on the assumption
> that there will be a spring election. Someone (David Lubell
> perhaps?) suggested that electoral reform needs to be included,
> and everyone at the meeting agreed to that. So my only
> contribution to the FairVote meeting tomorrow night would be that
> ER will be pushed by CoC.
>
> Locally CoC has not been meeting but we need to have an AGM very
> soon, and plan to find out who turns up (no one from KW - but us -
> has been turning up to the regional meetings) and get thoughts on
> the three issues. If no one turns up then we'd simply make sure
> that CoC - which pushes collaboration - is fully aware of FVC and
> its resources. In fact, from the regional meetings I already know
> that some keen FVers are also keen CoCers.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mary
>
> On 2020-11-24 8:21 a.m., Cathy Scott wrote:
>> Hi, All,
>>
>> You will have seen the email from Peter KH, with the articles on
>> the topic of *municipal powers, *which will be discussed at our
>> monthly Zoom meeting tomorrow.
>> There is also a webinar by Democracy Now on this same topic ,
>> starting at 7:00 pm tomorrow, when speakers from the Green,
>> Liberal and NDP parties will discuss ranked ballots, etc.
>> Below is a link to register for this webinar. *I am suggesting
>> that we all register for this webinar which will be the first
>> part of our meeting.*
>> Then, we can all join the Zoom meeting to discuss the topic
>> after the webinar. The link to the Zoom meeting is in an email
>> from a few days ago. I will open the Zoom meeting at 7 pm, so
>> that anyone not attending the webinar can join at 7.
>>
>> Please call me at 519 778-7397 if you need clarification about
>> this plan
>>
>> *Multi-partisan webinar on democracy in Ontario, Nov 25 at 7pm
>> <https://identity.leadnow.ca/clicks/link/7017/6d022cf8-d88e-4b5d-a8d9-5139177a3459?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtJMsf--vqzoiEtBNalOzkNnrBGLGwHbSBy0d%3Futm_source%3D%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dblast2020-11-19&member_guid=318867a7-37d4-47a7-970d-98520470f302>*
>>
>> Cathy
>>
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