FairvoteWRC meeting 2017-09-27
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Guided Discussion for Fair Vote Canada Strategy 2019
These are the resources and meeting notes for the Discussion Night meeting we held on Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 7:00pm in the Bread & Roses Community Meeting Room.
Resources
- Host Guide
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B5wRCtOTJB3wwE3DOcA65-S4vC-btBycaRuImivg3lU/edit?usp=sharing
- Fair Vote Canada Strategic Plan
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIyZ1XIGqv-ykXqCJWW-eBMyyDWuCScbzbj6AE1wmJs/edit?usp=sharing
- Meeting Announcement
- http://listserv.thinkers.org/pipermail/fvc-wat-announce_listserv.thinkers.org/2017-September/000996.html
- Meeting Notes
- https://sobac.com/wiki/FairvoteWRC_meeting_2017-09-27
Meeting Notes
Introductions
“Why is this issue personally important to you? What makes you care about this issue enough to join us tonight? ”
- 5 MPs have only 29% support in their riding.
- Furious about numbers. How can we fix it?
- Last few elections elected a majority with only 39%.
- Promises are not kept.
- (participant has been copying letters to Bardish Chagger)
- Promise broken.
- Need a collaborative or coalition government .
- Better social programs, &c.
- Have been voting Green, but my vote hasn't been effective.
- Broken promise.
- But there's still time to pass legislation to implement Electoral Reform!
- Needed to vote strategically because of the promise of Proportional Representation.
- Need a better system for working together.
- Started with the 2007 Ontario Referendum.
- Parties are elected with miniscule numbers.
- (participant worked with "Vote Together", "Lead Now", &c)
- Annoyed when promises are broken.
- Promises...
- Just getting involved in politics, checking out Fair Vote.
- Wish we had a real representative democracy; instead we have gross distortions
- False majorities, wrong-way winners.
- Hate voting strategically.
- Still hopeful!
- Impatient -- have been voting for decades, still haven't elected anyone.
- Change the rules for voting, but we need approval from the politicians to change.
- Who were elected with the current system, and so are unlikely to want it changed.
- Had given up on voting, but didn't understand the problem that made the popular vote not equal to the number of seats.
- Can't call ourselves a democracy.
- Every election things get worse.
- Working in politics, now understand the wasted vote and wasted effort.
- Politicians promised PR, didn't deliver.
- Heard Brian Tanguay speak.
- Fed up with Liberal promise: Campaign from the left, govern from the right.
