<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks Sharon. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is good to come back to such news after being away most of the Summer. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best regards to all. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stu </div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Sharon Sommerville</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, October 15, 2017 7:17 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org; fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[fvc-wat-disc] FVC & Democracy Watch Files Ethics Complaint Against PM Trudeau & New Angus Reid Poll</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr">Hello FairVoting Friends,<div><br></div><div>This past Friday was a remarkable day for electoral reform in Canada. </div><div><br></div><div>On Friday morning FairVote Canada and Democracy Watch filed an eithics complaint against PM Trudeau with Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson.</div><div><br></div><div>The complaint is a powerful document which is well worth reading. The complaint is available in this press release:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.fairvote.ca/fvc-democracy-watch-file-joint-ethics-complaint-against-pm/" target="_blank" style="line-height:1.22em;font-family:Verdana">http://www.fairvote.ca/fvc-<wbr style="line-height:1.22em">democracy-watch-file-joint-<wbr style="line-height:1.22em">ethics-complaint-against-pm/</a><u style="line-height:1.22em"></u><u style="line-height:1.22em"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u style="line-height:1.22em"></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Later on Friday, Angus Reid released a mid-term poll on what Canadians think about the prime minister and his government. Sixty six percent of Canadians polled said that the Liberal government was wrong not to pursue electoral reform - it should have kept its promise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px">The full poll can be seen here:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><a href="http://angusreid.org/trudeau-midterm/" target="_blank" style="line-height:1.22em">http://angusreid.org/trudeau-<wbr style="line-height:1.22em">midterm/</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px">The electoral reform question is in Part 2: Policy Hits and Misses</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px">We are keeping the pressure on! You are invited to visit Raj Saini MP Kitchener Centre, on Friday, October 20 at 3pm to deliver a petition in support of PR. Everyone is welcome!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px">Kind regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px">Sharon</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"> for FVC-WR</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1em;line-height:1.22em;font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a></p></div></div>
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