FairvoteWRC Discussion Night 2019-06-26

Date

Wednesday, 26 June 2019

Location

Community Room, Bread and Roses Co-op

Reports and Action Items

The Fair Vote Canada Annual General Meeting was held Saturday, 8 June 2019. Sharon Sommerville gave a report:

Citizen's Assembly

• Fair Vote Canada's National Strategy for the 2019 Federal Election is to set up a Citizens' Assembly
• See the video on the Citizens' Assembly in Ireland When Citizens Assemble
• There is no "Nuts'n'Bolts" info on Citizens' Assemblies yet
• A delegation is needed to visit Raj Saini (Kitchener Centre) and Bardish Chagger (Waterloo) to introduce the idea
• Pick people who live in the riding to form the delegation
  • Terry Henderson will visit Bardish Chagger in Waterloo
  • Jim Sannes will visit Raj Saini in Kitchener

Third Pary Rules for election

• Fair Vote Canada has registered as a Third Party
• Rules for Third Parties will be posted on the Fair Vote Waterloo's website
  • Elections Canada: Tools For Third Parties
  • "Things Fair Vote Volunteers Need to Know about Elections Canada"

ERRE comments

• Post online: "Visiting Liberal MPs: Excuses you may hear about the ERRE failure"

Upcoming Events

• BBQ for Fair Vote Waterloo -- Date to be determined
  • Location is Cathy Scott's back yard

Other News

• Terry Henderson to do data entry for National Office database
  • (this is from petitions gathered at festival events)

• Sharon Sommerville and Byron Weber Becker to meet with Karina Gould

• We need to count flyers &c. for Kultrun, Nonviolence DITP
  • Bundle flyers in groups of 25, paperclip, then submit numbers to Elections Canada

• Door knocking teams:
  • Taking place starting Labour Day
  • To be organized at a future meeting (not necessarily Discussion Night)
  • Be careful about third-party rules!

• Candidate meetings
  • with Greens, NDP and Liberals only

Festivals

• Myron doing the WR Nonviolence Day In The Park
• Peter, Jim, Sharon, Dave Arthur will do Kultrun

Meeting notes taken by Bob Jonkman.