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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Check out this article in today’s Vancouver Sun written by a prof at U of Windsor, Ontario, also a member of the Fraser Institute.</p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s not encouraging.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dave A</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lydia Miljan: The costs of changing the way British Columbians vote<br>The research is clear — a move from its current first-past-the-post electoral system to a proportional system would likely increase both government spending and deficits in B.C. When voting in the electoral reform referendum, British Columbians should understand the consequences of changing the way they vote.<br><a href="https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/lydia-miljan-the-costs-of-changing-the-way-british-columbians-vote">https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/lydia-miljan-the-costs-of-changing-the-way-british-columbians-vote</a></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:2jennross@gmail.com">Jennifer Ross</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:02 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [fvc-wat-disc] letter to BC newspapers</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yeah, I don't think so. One of the No sides great messages is that everything will be decided by Vancouver, so to have it decided by Ontario would just be that much worse. But what you CAN do is sign up for the telephone GOTV that's going on. Which I don't have the information at my fingertips but if you are interested and have some time starting the 22nd, I think, there is training available by video now and I can connect you to well, Anita, who might be reading this anyway.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jenn</p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Bookkeeping Services</span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>519-501-2736</span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#888888'>No other Western democratic country concentrates as much political power in the hands of one person as Canada does with her Prime Minister. </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:11 PM Dave Arthur <<a href="mailto:arthurd23@bell.net">arthurd23@bell.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I think we have all been closely following the BC referendum and been very concerned with the lies being said about PR.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Anita has told us about the website attempting to give citizens the facts and was hacked.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have checked out the Vancouver Sun and Victoria Times-Colonist and read op-eds and letters for and against.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>We are told it’s close and could go either way.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I know voteprbc is doing all they can with the resources they have.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I wish there was more we could do.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I would like to try to send a letter to these two papers.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have no idea how a letter from someone in Ontario would be accepted.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Comments?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dave A</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>To our fellow Canadians living in British Columbia.<br>You are our hope for electoral system change. We were very disappointed and angry when Justin Trudeau ignored the overwhelming evidence and support for proportional representation presented to his committee and at town halls, and then reneged on his promise. We ask that you separate facts from fictions about PR. When 90% of EU and OECD countries use PR, when countries like New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and others have moved from FPTP to PR, when no countries have moved the other way, and when PR is proven to provide more cooperation, consensus, long range planning, civility, effective voting as well as local representation for everyone, and actually reduces the chance of an extreme party gaining a false majority, PR is clearly the best choice. Please vote for PR.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>David Arthur, </span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Kitchener, Ontario</span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>_______________________________________________<br>This is the fvc-wat-disc mailing list<br>Post a message: <a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a 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></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>