<div dir="auto">Thanks Cathy and Bob. Sorry for the amateur mistake. :-(</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 2, 2017 4:09 PM, "Bob Jonkman" <<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><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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Of course, Jagmeet Singh is not in the cabinet of either the federal<br>
or provincial government, and so is not a Minister. As an opposition<br>
MP or MPP he's "Mr. Jagmeet Singh" in both conversation and<br>
correspondence.<br>
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Federal and Provincial Cabinet Ministers are referred to as, eg. "The<br>
Honourable Bardish Chagger", or in conversation and correspondence as<br>
"Minister Chagger".<br>
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- --Bob.<br>
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Styles of address - Canada.ca: <a href="http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1452017684393" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/<wbr>1452017684393</a><br>
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On 2017-10-02 02:50 PM, Catherine Campbell wrote:<br>
> Hi, Jay, Just thought I'd make the suggestion that I believe the<br>
> way to address a cabinet minister in a federal or provincial<br>
> cabinet is "minister. " eg Dear Minister Chagger. Backbenchers are<br>
> mr, ms, mrs or dr. I used to be an assistant researcher for an MP.<br>
> Staff members notice details like that and ascribe credibility to<br>
> the correspondent accordingly. Regards, Cathe<br>
><br>
>> On Oct 2, 2017, at 8:50 AM, Jay Judkowitz <<a href="mailto:judkowitz@gmail.com">judkowitz@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I tweeted at him about #ERRE this morning (RT's appreciated :-)<br>
>><br>
>> I also sent his office this letter:<br>
>><br>
>>> Dear Minister,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I would like to congratulate you on your historic and inspiring<br>
>>> victory in the race for the NDP leadership.<br>
>>><br>
>>> As someone who recently moved to Canada from the United States<br>
>>> so that my family could live under a saner political and<br>
>>> economic system, I am very glad that there is a strong NDP<br>
>>> party. Having a strong NDP is not important only for the NDP's<br>
>>> policy ideas. It's important generally to avoid the vicious,<br>
>>> winner take all, anti-voter, two party duopoly we experience in<br>
>>> the United States.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I am writing to implore you to vigorously support proportional<br>
>>> representation generally and specifically to make it a<br>
>>> precondition to any political alliance should there fail to be<br>
>>> a majority in Parliament next election.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I fear Duverger's Law and that real multi-party democracy in<br>
>>> Canada will not survive another decade of first past the post<br>
>>> elections. As someone who has lived under two party democracy,<br>
>>> I can assure you that it's not a fate you should want for<br>
>>> Canada.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Congratulations again. I wish you the greatest of success in<br>
>>> your new role. As you work, please consider the long term<br>
>>> health of Canada's democracy and not just near term issues.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Best regards, Jay Judkowitz<br>
>><br>
>> Hoping we can have some effect on him as he take on his new role.<br>
>><br>
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