Below is an email from Fair Vote Canada http://www.fairvote.ca/. Please spread the word and help ensure PR for Canada. Thanks!
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Please call your Liberal MP on Monday or Tuesday and urge them to vote yes to the Electoral Reform Committee Report!
When Justin Trudeau decided to break the campaign promise to make every vote count our Liberal Members of Parliament who campaigned on this promise did not get a vote.
That’s about to change.
On Wednesday, May 31, we expect there will be a free vote in the House of Commons on a motion to adopt the report of the all-party committee on electoral reform (ERRE). Read more here: http://www.fairvote.ca/errevote/
If the other parties vote yes – and we expect they will – we only need yes votes from 20 Liberal MPs for the motion to pass.
A yes vote by Liberal backbenchers would send a strong message to the government that many MPs did not agree with the Prime Minister’s decision and want the government to put the promise to make every vote count in 2019 back on the table.
Can you call your local Liberal MP and ask your MP to vote yes? Click here to call now!
Phone calls make an impact. All you need to say to the constituency assistant who answers is something like, “My name is __________ and I’m a constituent in (your riding). I’m calling to ask MP _______ to vote yes to the motion to adopt the report of the electoral reform committee.”
Of course, you can add whatever else you want about why PR and this promise is important to you! (If you voted Liberal last time, please mention that, too).
In visits with MPs this week, we are hearing that some MPs are still undecided. They are being told that only a small group of people in their riding care about this. Enough people tying up their constituency office phone lines for the next two days could convince them otherwise!
A few points to consider:
- Liberal MPs campaigned on a clear promise that 2015 was the last election using first-past-the-post and to make every vote count in 2019
- 63% of Canadians voted for parties who made this promise
- 88% of the experts who testified to the electoral reform committee and 87% of the public who participated recommended proportional representation
- The largest poll ever on this topic – 15,800 constituents in 20 Liberal ridings – shows that 70% of decided participants want their Liberal MP to advocate in the House of Commons that the Liberal government keep its promise, and change our system to proportional representation in time for the next election
This motion is not a bill. Liberal MPs do not have to agree with every recommendation in the report to vote yes.
There is still time to deliver this important promise for 2019! MPs willing to stand up for evidence, stand up for constituents, and stand up for their campaign promise can turn things around.
Please click here – https://fairvote.callmymp.ca/ – to call your Liberal MP now, and encourage friends to do the same!
Sincerely,
Anita Nickerson
Fair Vote Canada Action Coordinator
