<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I may be able to join for the meeting with Bardish - been working with her office on another issue as well. I'm in Waterloo, so this is my riding. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>SJM</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM Sharon Sommerville <<a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com" target="_blank">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Corliss,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for being in touch, good to hear from you and glad that you continue to follow what is going on with electoral reform in our area. </div><div><br></div><div>Will put you on the list for joining the meeting with Minister <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798:192.1">Chagger</span>. I will call this week to make an appointment and keep you posted on date and time.</div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798:192.2">Bardish's</span> comment, "make us do it" is intriguing, would like to explore that with you when we next meet. Don't suppose she gave any idea of how to "make us do it"? :)</div><div><br></div><div>Will be in touch soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Till then,</div><div>Sharon</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Corliss Olson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cpolson11@gmail.com" target="_blank">cpolson11@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Sharon,<br><br></div>I have been faithfully following activities on your posts, but my schedule has just not allowed me to join in the various activities. I would be interested in joining the group for the next lobbying effort with Ms. Chaggar, assuming the time works out for me. Had a brief but pleasant chat with her on Labour Day & she more or less said, "make us do it."<br></div><div><br></div><div>Nice work on you meeting with Raj, BTW.</div><span class="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>Corliss<br></font></span></div><div class="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798HOEnZb"><div class="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Sharon Sommerville <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com" target="_blank">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>That is great news, thank you. Will put you on the list and keep you updated.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Sharon</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 4:11 PM, David Dolson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ddolson@golden.net" target="_blank">ddolson@golden.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial" lang="en-US"> <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)">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)">Please put me on the list to visit Ms. Chaggar. She is my representative. </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></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)">-Dave</div> <table style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px" width="100%"> <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"><span> <div><b>From: </b>Sharon Sommerville</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, November 12, 2017 9:28 AM</div><div><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org</a>; <a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a></div></span><div><b>Reply To: </b>FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[fvc-wat-disc] Our Meeting With Raj Saini</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div class="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907h5"><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="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873_originalContent"><div dir="ltr">Hello <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.62">Fairvoting</span> Friends,<div><br></div><div>On Friday afternoon, a group of nine of us meet with Raj <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.63">Saini</span>, (L) MP for Kitchener Centre. Nine folks pretty much fills Raj's office! We presented Raj with this summer's petition which asked that his party keep their campaign promise and enact legislation to change our electoral system in time for 2019. There were well over 500 signatures on the petition.</div><div><br></div><div>Our message was strong, clear, passionate and respectful. Each of us had time to speak directly to Raj about why they care about electoral reform. Those comments were very powerful. </div><div><br></div><div>People spoke about the inevitability of electoral reform as our own experience and recent polls (In late Oct. Insights West found that 67% of <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.64">Cdns</span>. want the Liberal government to keep its promise on electoral reform, in early Oct. Angus Reid found the same) & the evidence that supports change, one of us emphasized that this is a legacy issue as his father before him established by <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.65">patriating</span> our Constitution and<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> raised the question of what side of history do you and your party want to be on?, one of us asked him, "I know, that you know that PR is the way to go to establish a fair electoral system, what happen?". One of us asked, what can we do to help you support PR?. One wanted to finally, after 40 years of voting, to be represented by someone they voted for. </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We addressed Trudeau's statement that the decision to renege on the promise of electoral reform was his to make and he made it because they weren't going to be able to institute Alternative Vote (June 2017, Iqaluit, Nunavut). We raised the anti-democratic nature of that statement. Raj spoke about the threat of a referendum being the justification for not moving forward with electoral reform. We knew that because the Liberals were unwilling to negotiate with the <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.66">NDP</span> & Greens to bring about the <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.67">ERRE</span> recommendations, the <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.68">NDP</span> & Greens brokered a deal with the Conservatives. To bring in a majority report from the <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.69">ERRE</span> committee, the price was a referendum.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Raj promised to present our petition to the House and speak with the Minister of Democratic Institutions about our concerns. We thank Raj for taking those actions and for the respectful conversation we had on Friday.</span></div><div><br></div><div>There is interest in putting a group together to speak with <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.70">Bardish</span> <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.71">Chagger</span> (L) Waterloo. If anyone is interested in going to meet with Minister <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.72">Chagger</span>, please let me know and we will arrange a meeting. You can reach me at:</div><div><br></div><div> <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.73">sharonsommerville</span>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> </div><div><br></div><div>A sincere thank you to the eight fair voting supporters who attended Friday's meeting. <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.74">Everyone's</span> passion, honesty and determination is inspiring. </div><div><br></div><div>Attached is a wonderful video of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come", just in case you need a little inspiration right now. And, you can see a photo of our team outside Raj's office at <span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.75">FVC</span>-<span id="m_8694127486535346512m_-1536896015729515798m_-4308319513599260719m_5376088732479286907m_-7235869833305901873gmail-:1nm.76">WR's</span> website. The link is also attached.</div><div><br></div><div>With thanks to all our supporters for your continued support as we work toward building a better Canada.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Sharon</div><div>for FVC-WR</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fairvotewrc.ca/reminding-raj-saini-about-electoral-reform/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=3528e8591d67497a803a18f64ef78a18&uid=756912124761370624&nid=244+272699400" target="_blank">http://www.fairvotewrc.ca/reminding-raj-saini-about-electoral-reform/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=3528e8591d67497a803a18f64ef78a18&uid=756912124761370624&nid=244+272699400</a><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div></div>
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