<div dir="ltr">YES! I vote for that. Please download however you download so we can have a mirror.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Laurel L. Russwurm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laurel.l@russwurm.org" target="_blank">laurel.l@russwurm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_1955047269314721805moz-cite-prefix">I don't know about the archiving
concern... the ERRE links I have are active:<br>
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Home Page<br>
<a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/ERRE" target="_blank">http://www.parl.gc.ca/<wbr>Committees/en/ERRE</a><br>
<br>
Meetings<br>
<a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/ERRE/Meetings" target="_blank">http://www.parl.gc.ca/<wbr>Committees/en/ERRE/Meetings</a><br>
<br>
Work<br>
<a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/ERRE/Work" target="_blank">http://www.parl.gc.ca/<wbr>Committees/en/ERRE/Work</a><br>
<br>
<strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY
IN CANADA: PRINCIPLES, PROCESS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR
ELECTORAL REFORM<span class="m_1955047269314721805Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><br>
<a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=e&Mode=1&Parl=42&Ses=1&DocId=8655791" target="_blank">http://www.parl.gc.ca/<wbr>HousePublications/Publication.<wbr>aspx?Language=e&Mode=1&Parl=<wbr>42&Ses=1&DocId=8655791</a><br>
<br>
Members<br>
<a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/ERRE/Members?membershipOn=2016-08-12" target="_blank">http://www.parl.gc.ca/<wbr>Committees/en/ERRE/Members?<wbr>membershipOn=2016-08-12</a><br>
<br>
If there is concern it will disappear, might it be an idea to
download it so if it does disappear FVC can host a mirror? <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Laurel<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 05/06/2017 04:25 PM, Anita Nickerson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I doubt it will be there. They've archived that
whole committee in hopes it disappears.
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<div>I agree about calling it the Keep Your Promise motion, even
though technically of course it will be called something like
"motion to concur with..."</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Bob
Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span>
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I expect that further happenings about the ERRE Report will
be listed<br>
on the website at<br>
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<a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/ERRE/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committe<wbr>es/en/ERRE/StudyActivity?<wbr>studyActivityId=9</a><br>
013025<br>
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The report is officially entitled "Strengthening Democracy
in Canada :<br>
Principles, Process and Public Engagement for Electoral
Reform" --<br>
what you said about marketing!<br>
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- --Bob.<br>
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On 2017-05-06 01:52 PM, Jay Judkowitz wrote:<br>
> That would work for me :-) I hope Mr. Cullen puts
his marketing<br>
> hat on. He needs to make this easy for the press to
cover and for<br>
> readers to digest.<br>
><br>
> On May 6, 2017 1:45 PM, "Jennifer Ross" <<a href="mailto:2jennross@gmail.com" target="_blank">2jennross@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Keep your Promise?<br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Jay Judkowitz<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:judkowitz@gmail.com" target="_blank">judkowitz@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> I'm worried about public visibility on
this. "Motion to Concur<br>
>>> with Election Reform Committee Report"
shows up in 0 searches<br>
>>> in <a href="http://news.google.ca" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">news.google.ca</a> and on twitter<br>
>>><br>
>>> Is there some popular (and digestible) name
for this that we<br>
>>> can mail and tweet about and talk to
neighbors about? How<br>
>>> would the average Canadian citizen know
this is happening and<br>
>>> that they can still influence the outcome?<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Donald
Fraser<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:donaldafraser@gmail.com" target="_blank">donaldafraser@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Nathan Cullen, in his recent gathering
at KPL re the<br>
>>>> Parliamentary vote on his "Motion to
Concur with Election<br>
>>>> Reform Committee Report", indicated
that he had 20 'target'<br>
>>>> Liberal MPs who, in his opinion, might
vote to concur.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> However, for reasons of his own, he did
not want to reveal<br>
>>>> his list ... maybe because he would be
breaking one or many<br>
>>>> confidences.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I wanted to reach out to those 'target'
MPs to encourage them<br>
>>>> to vote their conscience, so today I
have started to send the<br>
>>>> following Email to all non-Cabinet MPs
(assuming none of them<br>
>>>> are on his target list and might be
alarmed at its content)<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Since the last mailout, I have had to
update the mailing list<br>
>>>> I sent you with all the changes in the
Liberal Caucus. I have<br>
>>>> attached this new list in case you want
to use it. (.doc and<br>
>>>> .pdf)<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> cheers, Don<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> ==============================<wbr>=<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Hello (Liberal MPname),<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I am writing to you concerning a coming
motion in Parliament<br>
>>>> to “concur” with the Report of the
Electoral Reform (ER)<br>
>>>> Committee. Traditionally such a vote
has always been a free<br>
>>>> vote.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Voting to concur will allow the subject
of ER to regain<br>
>>>> Parliamentary attention. 88% of the
contributors to the ER<br>
>>>> process recommended Proportional
Representation (PR) as<br>
>>>> Canada’s new means of choosing its MPs.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I am asking you to vote your conscience
and recommend that<br>
>>>> the report be accepted.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Just two short years ago the Liberal
Party was in third<br>
>>>> place demonstrating that our fickle
First Past the Post<br>
>>>> (FPTP) system is unstable and subject
to emotional mood<br>
>>>> swings of the electorate. This causes
many problems such as<br>
>>>> the Policy Pendulum, strategic voting,
discouraged and<br>
>>>> disenfranchised voters, lack of long
term planning etc.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> With the growing danger of Trumpism
spreading to Canada as<br>
>>>> evidenced in the platforms of several
Conservative leadership<br>
>>>> candidates, we need to protect our
country by introducing<br>
>>>> coalition government which is an almost
guaranteed outcome of<br>
>>>> PR.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Yours Truly,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Donald A Fraser<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> 184 Forsyth Drive,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Waterloo, Ontario,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> N2L-1A2,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="mailto:donaldafraser@gmail.com" target="_blank">donaldafraser@gmail.com</a><br>
>>>><br>
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