<div dir="auto">I also have to disagree with Cathy. We were there to ask for two specific things (an NDP critic for Democratic Reform and a PR strategy committee) and 5 minutes into the meeting she said "I'd love to champion that in the caucus for you".<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Later in the meeting, she very strongly implied that she knew the decision to do it (at least to appoint a critic) had already been made by party leadership and that there would be an announcement in the next week or so.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The only reservation I heard from her is that she didn't want to be the critic personally. Other than that, I don't know how we could have had a much more positive response.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Jon</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon., Aug. 26, 2019, 10:50 a.m. Mary Jackes, <<a href="mailto:mkj@bell.net">mkj@bell.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mmm - I think Catherine Fife expressed strong commitment to PR. <br>
Jonathon's proposal had apparently already been discussed favourably by <br>
the MPPs who were moving ahead on the matter. She said only that the <br>
NDP will not have a policy on which particular PR type should be <br>
implemented.<br>
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Best, Mary<br>
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On 2019-08-26 10:28 a.m., Catherine Campbell wrote:<br>
> Hi, Anita, A group of us met Catherine Fife on Friday 23. She seemed conciliatory. She didn’t seem strongly committed despite the NDP getting occasionally reduced to a rump in elections. Eg 1993 federal general election 6.88 percent popular vote, 9 seats. The federal NDP May also do poorly on October 21. Can you please send a reminder of tonight’s meeting to everyone? Please bring all the cards you have which Don , I and others can take away to distribute as soon as possible. They are a sunk cost paid for by previous donations. The public needs the facts. I’m surprised I only learned at the Fair Vote booth at one of the festivals this summer that the only western democracies which don’t practice a form of PR are the USA, UK and Canada! I’ve been coming to meetings for four years! Go figure! Fair Vote needs to do more remedial teaching of members and voters. See you tonight. Regards, Cathe Campbell<br>
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