hey Ari Has anyone taken you up on this?<br><br>Bryn <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">ARI DAIGEN</b> <<a href="mailto:adaigen@sympatico.ca">adaigen@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello everyone,<br><br>Again, here's a letter in the Record today:<br><a href="http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/249694">
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/249694</a><br><br>I took the liberty of writing a response to it (below). I think this guy<br>unwittingly made a great case for MMP, and my response points that out.<br>Unfortunately, I've used up my quota with the Record until after the
<br>referendum. If anyone out there (who maybe doesn't have time to write a<br>letter him/herself) would like to send this in to the Record under their own<br>name, please go ahead. (<a href="mailto:letters@therecord.com">
letters@therecord.com</a>) I think it's a point that<br>should be made.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Ari<br><br>Here's the letter that could be sent:<br><br>In his October 1 letter, Peter Hughes argues that NDP and Green supporters
<br>should vote Liberal because "in the Kitchener-Waterloo riding, a vote for<br>NDP/Green is effectively a vote for the Progressive Conservatives." He also<br>argues that potential Conservative voters should vote Liberal because it is
<br>Liberals who will form the government, and only by having a government MPP<br>will Kitchener-Waterloo be represented in provincial decisions.<br><br>Choosing a candidate you don't like to avoid one you despise? No
<br>representation in government if your riding elects an MPP from the wrong<br>party? The solution to these problems isn't to vote for any particular<br>party--it's to change the system.<br><br>Hughes' letter shows that if we really want a say in how our province is
<br>run, we must vote for a mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system in<br>the October 10 referendum.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>fvc-wat-disc mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">
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