[fvc-wat-disc] agenda for Wednesday's meeting

Tue Nov 24 18:26:54 EST 2020

That's great, Mary! Thank you! Yes, Ravi and Christina :). That would be
great if you raise it.

Local run-off voting is something where I get why people support it, but
it's not going to help solve most of the pressing problems C of C works on.
PR is a much harder battle but the payoff is worth it as we all know! :)

Anita

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 4:27 PM Mary Jackes <mkj at bell.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> 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> 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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