Greens Joined Waterloo Region’s Rally For Proportional Representation

1918 — A decent sized crowd especially for short notice outdoor February event!

Kitchener-Conestoga's Bob Jonkman was the Master of Ceremonies — Kitchener-Conestoga’s Bob Jonkman was the Master of Ceremonies

Kitchener Centre's Sam Nabi — Kitchener Centre’s Sam Nabi spoke on behalf of Waterloo Region Greens

crowd — Who’s not listening to Canadians?

Kitchener South-Hespeler's David Weber — David Weber

Sam Nabi chats with Waterloo Greens Stacey Danckert

1870 — Louisette Lanteigne holds her sign behind e-616 Petition author Jonathan Cassels

1905 — Electoral reform is serious business.

2241 — Bob Jonkman (and son Will, who looked after the event’s sound).

142602 — Former Green Party Candidate Cathy Maclellan

2506 — Bob Jonkman speaks with Laura Hamilton of “Divest Waterloo” and “Food Not Bombs” (the event’s unofficial caterer.)

Just a little reminder: Parliamentary Petition e-616 is the single most important thing any of us can do for Electoral Reform right now…
https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-616

You do not have to be a Canadian citizen to sign.

If you are not a Canadian citizen but are resident in Canada you can sign.

You do not have to be resident in Canada to sign.
My Australian electoral reform friends can’t sign, but Canadian citizens resident in Australia can.

You do not have to be old enough to vote to sign.

Young people who sign this now may be lucky enough to have their votes count when they are old enough.

But signing is not enough: you need is to confirm your valid email address before your signature will be added.

Our hope is to get the petition signature number as high as possible. 300,000 (about what the mydemocracy survey got) would be amazing.
I understand 240,000 would be fabulous, as that is 1% of Canadian voters.
The 122,981 signatures we have already are amazing.
This is the very first Parliamentary e-petition to top 100,000 signatures. That is the magic number that is supposed to trigger a Parliamentary debate.
The e-411 (Islam) petition only managed 69,742 signatures, and it resulted in Mr. Mulcair’s unanimously accepted Parliamentary Motion on October 6, 2016 as well as Ms. Khalid’s Motion 103 which resulted in HoC debate.

The higher we can get this number, the better. Read more about the petition here:

https://wrgreens.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/sign-petition-e-616/

If you can share with your social network, that would be awesome.

And Green voters should sign, because we need Proportional Representation to have any hope of properly addressing Climate Change. The reason this issue is so important is that this is the foundation that must be laid for pretty much every issue Canadians face. Without fair representation we might as well not have democracy at all.

Greens Joined Waterloo Region’s Rally For Proportional Representation

If every Canadian who voted Green in 2015 signed this petition, Greens alone could generate upwards of 600,000 signatures.

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