<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537561104187_16415"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537561104187_16427">Just listened to the audio. Nice work, David; thank you!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537561104187_16428"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537561104187_16427"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537561104187_16505"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537561104187_16427">David</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, September 21, 2018 10:45 AM, Dave Arthur <arthurd23@bell.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3440673694"><style>#yiv3440673694 #yiv3440673694 --
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#yiv3440673694 </style><div><div class="yiv3440673694WordSection1"><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Thanks Bob.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">I didn’t know that show was available afterwards online.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">I was able to listen and to the couple phone-ins that followed.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">The one phone-in Mike used the usual tact of pointing at PR countries that were experiencing the problem of a far right party getting enough votes and seats to cause problems.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">We need to emphasize that this is a poor argument against PR.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Research shows that PR countries have more cooperation and consensus and long range planning.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">The thresholds help prevent much of the problem.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">The presentation by Helen Clark, three term PM of New Zealand, on the Broadbent website, makes the operation of parliament in NZ more admirable than our partisan fighting.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">The fact is that a number of countries (e.g. NZ, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) have moved from FPTP to PR.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Are there any countries attempting to move from PR to FPTP? </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">If a far right populist party should happen to get 38% of the votes at some point, would we prefer them to have 65% of the seats and 100% power or 38% of the seats and a minority?</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">I sure wish Doug Ford had only 40% of the seats.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Dave</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Sent from <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694yqt0363675949" id="yiv3440673694yqt83041"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in;"><b>From: </b><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">Bob Jonkman</a><br clear="none"><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, September 20, 2018 8:22 PM<br clear="none"><b>To: </b><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">Fair Vote Waterloo Discussion List</a><br clear="none"><b>Subject: </b>[fvc-wat-disc] David Arthur on The Mike Farwell Show</div></div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">I just found out that Fair Vote Waterloo's own Dave Arthur was</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">interviewed on the Mike Farwell radio show Tuesday morning.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">https://www.570news.com/audio/the-mike-farwell-show/</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Dave's segment starts at about 43m19s and goes for about 13 minutes</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">--Bob.</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">-- </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting</div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal">GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA</div></div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3440673694MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div><div class="yqt0363675949" id="yqt34080">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">This is the fvc-wat-disc mailing list<br clear="none">Post a message: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a><br clear="none">Unsubscribe: <a shape="rect" href="http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-disc_listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-disc_listserv.thinkers.org</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>