<div dir="ltr">I doubt it will be there. They've archived that whole committee in hopes it disappears. <div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Anita</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><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> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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I expect that further happenings about the ERRE Report will be listed<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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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">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">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">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">donaldafraser@gmail.com</a><br>
>>>><br>
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