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<DIV>FVC doesn’t support AV for good reason.</DIV>
<DIV>It doesn’t create PR for political parties and therefore views of all
voters.</DIV>
<DIV>City councils are typically not party-based. </DIV>
<DIV>AV makes sense for non-party based elections in that it ensures the winner
collects over 50% support when second and third place votes are added in.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=anitann88@gmail.com>Anita
Nickerson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 6, 2017 4:23 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org>FVC Waterloo Region
Discussion</A> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Kitchener and Waterloo city councils both voted no to AV - in Oct
and in Feb.
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<DIV>FVC doesn't support AV anyway.
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<DIV>But we have some regional at-large seats that could use STV. Matthew Piggot
and I met with a Kitchener or Waterloo city councillor (sorry, municipal is not
my thing, I forget which one - ask Matthew) and she explained that to get STV
for those seats, we'd have to campaign and convince EVERY city council in our
local elections to go ranked ballot (AV - which two have already rejected) for
the regional seats to come along for the ride, because it's all on the same
ballot and she can't see how we could have FPTP for part of the vote and ranked
for others. She reiterated this to me on facebook again the other day. It
doesn't make sense to me why you can't have two voting systems on one ballot but
anyway, I get the logic and think she's right. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I think someone will soon start 123WaterlooRegion outside of FVC.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I'm happy to stay out of that one.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anita</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Jay Judkowitz <SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr>Thanks everyone for all the insights. Glad I'm not thinking
outlandish thoughts. I hope I can contribute in some way.
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As a side note, In Marwan's long and dismissive email, he suggested
working locally instead of nationally. Seems defeatist to me, but there
might be something to working locally <U><I>in addition</I></U> to
nationally. Have we gotten any indications how Kitchener, Waterloo, and
Cambridge govenments think about voting reform? London recently just
chose ranked choice which is a nice first step.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Donald Fraser <SPAN
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Don</DIV>
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would be most credible coming from an expert who (as far as I know) has
not sought public office, like Professor Byron Becker. Bob Jonkman
would be construed to have ulterior, sneaky political motives.
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the Sunday afternoon meeting at St John's Kitchen, I said I thought that
Bardish thinks PR will make it harder for minority ethnic and religious
groups to win nominations and ridings. Bob said it would make it easier. I
replied, someone should tell that to , Raj, Marwan and her.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi Jay and everyone.</DIV>
<DIV>We’re still hopeful that the campaigning and letter-writing will sway
enough Liberal MPs to vote to go with the ERRE recommendations at the end
of May.</DIV>
<DIV>It’s a long shot.</DIV>
<DIV>I have to believe most will vote the party line and with Justin’s
decision.</DIV>
<DIV>I think we all believe the Liberal promise was based on their vision
that the change would be to alternative vote/ranked ballot that would give
them, the centrist party, a huge advantage.</DIV>
<DIV>When that was rejected by ERRE witnesses and town hall meetings as
obviously self-serving, they looked for any way to avoid electoral
reform.</DIV>
<DIV>Despite the fact that there was clear consensus for PR from witnesses
and Canadians who made themselves informed and attended the meetings, the
Liberals used the unfortunate fact that many Canadians were not
interested, were uninformed, or preferred our unfair system that gave
their Liberal or Conservative parties an advantage, to claim there was no
consensus.</DIV>
<DIV>There is a reason Canada ranks low for voter turnout and for low
percentage of women in parliament (although it is showing some
improvement).</DIV>
<DIV>Many of us have met with our local MPs.</DIV>
<DIV>I’ve met with Bardish twice and been very disappointed with her style
of engagement.</DIV>
<DIV>Chantal Hebert’s recent column in The Star hit it pretty well when
she said Bardish has perfected the art of giving unhelpful answers with a
smile.</DIV>
<DIV>The responses to my presentation to her were defensive, completely
irrelevant and factually inaccurate.</DIV>
<DIV>When I mentioned that 90% of EU and OECD countries use PR, she said
“We shouldn’t change our system just because someone else does”.</DIV>
<DIV>When I mentioned that the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly recommended MMP
in the Ontario referendum ten years ago that lost, she said it was because
“the voices against the change did a better job than the voices
for”.</DIV>
<DIV>This in spite of the fact that polls at the time showed 50% of
Ontarians didn’t know what the referendum was about and 70% didn’t know
what MMP was.</DIV>
<DIV>This was in part due to the McGuinty government’s total failure in
publicizing the issue or educating Ontarians.</DIV>
<DIV>When I explained my great disappointment that they broke their
promise and that, unless they demonstrate continuation of working toward
reforming our voting system, I will not vote Liberal or campaign as I did
with Leadnow in the last election, she said “Is that a threat?”</DIV>
<DIV>It’s difficult committing to one party. The Conservatives are
no longer “progressive”.</DIV>
<DIV>The Liberals have not yet delivered.</DIV>
<DIV>The Chretien Liberals signed onto the Earth Summit’s Kyoto Protocol
in 1992 and then for 14 years did absolutely nothing.</DIV>
<DIV>It’s interesting that some years ago the Sierra Club under Elizabeth
May named Brian Mulroney Canada’s most environmental PM following the
international and successful Montreal Protocol banning CFCs.</DIV>
<DIV>With PR I believe Green support would jump considerably from the
almost 10% support they received in 2008 (which under FPTP won zero
seats).</DIV>
<DIV>Anyway, let’s keep doing what we can to move electoral reform
along.</DIV>
<DIV>Dave A</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=anitann88@gmail.com>Anita Nickerson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 1, 2017 12:19 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=jenn@jenniferross.ca>Jennifer Ross</A> ; <A
title=fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org>FVC Waterloo Region
Discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [fvc-wat-disc] Arguing for PR</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Hi Jay! Please do
keep engaging with your MP and ask other people to do the same thing. On
May 31 they can be heroes but to say they need a bit of a push is an
understatement.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#990000>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#990000><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>People are doing the opposite of
walking away, I mean to say. </FONT></SPAN><BR>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#990000><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT color=#000000>After Harper won
his majority, that day in 2011 - everyone knowing that basically for four
years there was no hope of anything happening - we had thousands of emails
to FVC with people wanting to get involved. When something's unfair, when
parties abuse their power, it makes people realize something's seriously
wrong. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#000000><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT color=#000000>One thing with the
election promise and then the ERRE consultations is the government gave
all our folks REAL HOPE - first they promised - and many PR supporters
voted or campaigned for them - then they told us to show up here and here
and here and we'll listen to you, all the while Trudeau repeating they
were committed.<BR><BR>People<I> invested their <B>time </B>in this in
good faith.</I> When you invest your time in something, you get to care
about it a bit more. People showed up at the town hall, the ERRE
consultation, the Minister's tour. They wrote letters, they send long
submissions to the ERRE committee on what they wanted and why and talked
about isn't it great that you are doing this because they were told over
and over that their feedback mattered. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#000000><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT color=#000000>If the Liberals had
just quietly walked away from their promise on October 20, 2015, as most
people expected them to do, as most governments with a 39% majority would
do, we wouldn't see what Jenn is talking about now. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#000000><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT color=#000000>But because Trudeau
kept the game going so long and with such intensity, a core of people
really got personally <I>involved </I>so when Trudeau suddenly pulled the
plug he fired up a community that is now somewhere between disgusted and
furious at being used and lied to. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#000000><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT color=#000000>A community with a
<I>long </I>memory.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#000000><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
color=#000000>Anita</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Jennifer Ross
<SPAN dir=ltr><<A>2jennross@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Hi, Jay. Welcome to the movement (and the
country!)<BR><BR></DIV>I am a Liberal. I have tried each of those
arguments many times; they sure make sense to me, and they made some
sense to my Liberal friends prior to around October of 2016. After
all, Sharon and I only wrote the "important" part of Resolution 31 (the
policy that brought about the election platform on Electoral Reform); we
couldn't have passed it through the policy gauntlet by ourselves and
without buy-in from the membership, and particularly from the
caucus.<BR><BR></DIV>But, in a telling reason why we need PR to end
hyper-partisanship, most Liberal rank and file no longer want to hear
it, and Liberal MPs will "engage" with you without actually paying any
attention to you. In fact, Francis Scarpaleggia actually said, out
loud and during a press conference "platform promises are just a way to
engage with Canadians." That's not what I was doing when I was
helping our Liberals win government, I can assure you! I was
highlighting the <U><I><B>promise</B></I></U>.<BR><BR>Oh, and
non-engagement of Canadian citizenry translates to they don't want to
change the voting system, not that they are so non-engaged they don't
even know other options are available. Or an understanding of what
we have now for that matter. Or they don't feel they know enough
about the options that they should weigh in on the decision-making
(which I think is the majority).<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Maybe hearing about it from someone new will be helpful,
particularly if you have some lived experience or a different
perspective to inform your conclusions. Telling the story as to
why you've come to believe it, as it were.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>But, we don't give up because I'm the Treasurer of Fair
Vote Canada, and am right now going through our membership list for
reasons that aren't important to the discussion. And I am totally
blown away by the number of members whose membership had lapsed and they
renewed after December 1st (when the Report of the ERRE came down) and
the new members who signed up after February 1st (when Justin Trudeau
pulled the plug on electoral reform). People are doing the
opposite of walking away, I mean to say. <BR><BR></DIV>We even
have two members who DIED and whose family is still paying their
membership dues. That is how important this issue is to
some. So for those dear friends as well as everyone still fighting
for the cause, please do all of it. :)<BR><BR></DIV>The Record is
good and we get our fair share of letters these days, I think.
Even better are the Township papers who actually support PR (which you'd
think would be the other way around but there we are). But you
need to be a rural person to be published by them, I think. Then
there's the Waterloo Chronicle and the Kitchener Post, which we don't
tend to concentrate on so they may be ripe for the picking. <B>We
do have a letter writing group and I hope someone else tells you more
about that.</B><BR><BR></DIV>Where are you from? Because if there
is a diaspora in the Region also from that country or region, it would
be most valuable to connect with them and offer a PR 101 course for
Canada (don't worry, we have people who are experts to do
it).<BR><BR></DIV>Thanks so much for stepping on board!<BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Fairvote folks,
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<DIV> As someone new to the area and the
country, I am wondering what the best way is to argue the case for PR
and where we should be arguing it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> I have mailed my MP, Mr. Tabbara, and
received a long form letter in return that I'm sure most of you have
seen (they did not even put my name on it and called me
"Diana"). I replied to his mail, but am not anticipating a
personalized engagement.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Letters to the editor can get some
visibility. What publications would you suggest I write
to?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> What about opposing
organizations? Is there any group in particular who it would be
worthwhile to engage with to try and change their mind through open
and honest discourse?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> As for arguments that would work
and would not work, I am trying to put myself in the position of the
Liberals since the Liberals are the ones with the power to make or
break PR right now. And, in that mindset, there are three
arguments that make sense to me.</DIV>
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<OL>
<LI>Liberals have complete power now which is great, but it was only
a short time ago when they had no power. Conservatives ruled
for 10 years while they waited. Wouldn't they want some say
all the time rather than no say for a decade at a time.
<LI>PR is a huge benefit to the party in the middle of a system with
3 relatively popular parties. Even when they can not just
dictate policy, they can partner to the left or the right to make
policy on any given issue. It would seem that PR would benefit
them the most of any party in the long term.
<LI>It's scary to let a party with 39% of the vote get 100% of the
power. Imagine a situation like the US. Let's say 15% of
Canadians (and I'm just making up that number) are really fed up
with things and vehemently support a right wing demagogue like Trump
and that demagogue manages to become the Conservative Party
leader. Let's say at the same time the Liberals and/or NDP
falter due to scandal, a bad candidate, an economic downturn, a
terrorist attack, etc... In that situation, it's not
hard to imagine another 24% of Canadians holding their nose and
voting for the Conservatives led by that demagogue. They hit
the 39% of the votes, get the 51% of the seats and 100% of the
power. This does not seem like a likely event for any given
election, but seems to be a certainty to happen eventually (based on
the math and probability, not based on any notion I have of Canadian
preferences). Wouldn't the Liberals want to do anything
to prevent this sort of scenario from being even possible? I
know the counter argument to this is that the right wing radicals
would always be represented in a PR scenario, but I'd rather that
they always have small representation and continually expose
themselves than that they can lie in wait and eventually win a
stunning victory like what happened in the US in November.</LI></OL>
<DIV> Please let me know your thoughts
on (a) where we should be making the case and (b) your thoughts on the
case I'm making.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Jay</DIV>
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