Great, Vivian.

I just read a message from Anita this morning that she will be sending out the link, so I won’t bother sending out one myself tomorrow night.

I expect that Tom will be joining us but Patti sent her regrets.

John

On Dec 10, 2020, at 10:03 AM, Vivian Unger <vivian.unger@...> wrote:

I'll see you then.

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 20:14, John Filliter <johndfilliter@...> wrote:

Hi again, folks.? Anita Nickerson has kindly agreed to set me up to host a New Brunswick meeting of folks wanting to send a Christmas card to Santa Justin expressing our wish to receive a PR electoral system from the Jolly Old Elf this Christmas.

These are the details:

Date: Friday, December 11th, 2020

Time: 8:00 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time. ?(I expect to email the invitation to join about ten minutes before then; please sign in at least five minutes early so that I can admit you to the event on time.)

Link:?

Passcode for meeting: 245368

All you neeed to participate is a Christmas Card to send to Mr. Trudeau, which you will hold up beside your face (to be included in a huge collage of PR supporters).

The meeting is expected to last only about ten minutes, perhaps less.

You can join at the last minute, if you wish.? The more the merrier.? Your family, friends, pets, etc. are all welcome!

If you have any friends who wish to be included in the invitation, please send me the email address for them by noon on Friday.

Hope you can join us for this virtual flash mob.

Yours in common cause.

John Filliter

On Dec 9, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@...> wrote:

Great! So pick a day and time - Thursday evening or Friday evening. At this late stage, I'd suggest John just pick whichever one he can show up for because we're out of time for doodle polls.?

Feel free to invite family and pets (seriously - Gisela has given us some nice pictures with dogs).?

Halifax Rick invited his family so there would be enough people for a photo - whatever works!?

What we're doing is putting human faces of people who want a Citizens'?Assembly on Electoral?Reform on the 8300 cards that are going to Trudeau already.?

On December 12 we'll be sharing all the pictures on social media (facebook, twitter and Instagram) at this hashtag #MakeYourVoiceHeard.

Jenice Atwin has made a short video saying "yay" (basically) we will share, and I am awaiting similar videos promised by Nathaniel and Daniel (fingers crossed!)

We're also doing this in parallel with our UK counterparts - Make Votes Matter - same hashtag that day - so the idea is to get that hashtag busy!

As soon as I get a date and time I'll set it your meeting and we can all share the link with whoever might be persuaded to come!?

You can bring a regular holiday card or print off a picture of the one you ordered online or make something - it doesn't matter. (If you get really creative as a few people have, we'll share a close up of your card, too! :)

Thanks again, everyone!

Anita

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Vivian Unger

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Land of the Wabanaki Confederacy: Wolastokuk (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq

BOOK INDEXING SERVICES

FICTION

Hi again, folks.? Anita Nickerson has kindly agreed to set me up to host a New Brunswick meeting of folks wanting to send a Christmas card to Santa Justin expressing our wish to receive a PR electoral system from the Jolly Old Elf this Christmas.

These are the details:

Date: Friday, December 11th, 2020

Time: 8:00 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time. ?(I expect to email the invitation to join about ten minutes before then; please sign in at least five minutes early so that I can admit you to the event on time.)

Link:?

Passcode for meeting: 245368

All you neeed to participate is a Christmas Card to send to Mr. Trudeau, which you will hold up beside your face (to be included in a huge collage of PR supporters).

The meeting is expected to last only about ten minutes, perhaps less.

You can join at the last minute, if you wish.? The more the merrier.? Your family, friends, pets, etc. are all welcome!

If you have any friends who wish to be included in the invitation, please send me the email address for them by noon on Friday.

Hope you can join us for this virtual flash mob.

Yours in common cause.

John Filliter

On Dec 9, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@...> wrote:

Great! So pick a day and time - Thursday evening or Friday evening. At this late stage, I'd suggest John just pick whichever one he can show up for because we're out of time for doodle polls.?

Feel free to invite family and pets (seriously - Gisela has given us some nice pictures with dogs).?

Halifax Rick invited his family so there would be enough people for a photo - whatever works!?

What we're doing is putting human faces of people who want a Citizens'?Assembly on Electoral?Reform on the 8300 cards that are going to Trudeau already.?

On December 12 we'll be sharing all the pictures on social media (facebook, twitter and Instagram) at this hashtag #MakeYourVoiceHeard.

Jenice Atwin has made a short video saying "yay" (basically) we will share, and I am awaiting similar videos promised by Nathaniel and Daniel (fingers crossed!)

We're also doing this in parallel with our UK counterparts - Make Votes Matter - same hashtag that day - so the idea is to get that hashtag busy!

As soon as I get a date and time I'll set it your meeting and we can all share the link with whoever might be persuaded to come!?

You can bring a regular holiday card or print off a picture of the one you ordered online or make something - it doesn't matter. (If you get really creative as a few people have, we'll share a close up of your card, too! :)

Thanks again, everyone!

Anita

I'm willing to participate. BCCing someone else who I believe is interested. Also CCing the FairVoting4NB group.

Vivian

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 11:23, John Filliter <johndfilliter@...> wrote:

Hi, folks.

Is anybody else interested in sending a card to Justin Trudeau via a short Zoom meeting?

New Brunswick is the only province not involved in this Fair Vote Canada initiative at the moment.

All you need to do is to have a card in hand for Trudeau and join in a Zoom meeting tomorrow or Friday.

Anita Nickerson has offered to help me host such a meeting if anybody else is interested.

Please email me back today if you are interested in taking part.

Thanks, and Seasons Greetings to you all.

John Filliter

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Vivian Unger

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Land of the Wabanaki Confederacy: Wolastokuk (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq

BOOK INDEXING SERVICES

FICTION

I'm willing to participate. BCCing someone else who I believe is interested. Also CCing the FairVoting4NB group.

Vivian

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 11:23, John Filliter <johndfilliter@...> wrote:

Hi, folks.

Is anybody else interested in sending a card to Justin Trudeau via a short Zoom meeting?

New Brunswick is the only province not involved in this Fair Vote Canada initiative at the moment.

All you need to do is to have a card in hand for Trudeau and join in a Zoom meeting tomorrow or Friday.

Anita Nickerson has offered to help me host such a meeting if anybody else is interested.

Please email me back today if you are interested in taking part.

Thanks, and Seasons Greetings to you all.

John Filliter

--

Vivian Unger

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Land of the Wabanaki Confederacy: Wolastokuk (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq

BOOK INDEXING SERVICES

FICTION

Hi, folks.

Is anybody else interested in sending a card to Justin Trudeau via a short Zoom meeting?

New Brunswick is the only province not involved in this Fair Vote Canada initiative at the moment.

All you need to do is to have a card in hand for Trudeau and join in a Zoom meeting tomorrow or Friday.

Anita Nickerson has offered to help me host such a meeting if anybody else is interested.

Please email me back today if you are interested in taking part.

Thanks, and Seasons Greetings to you all.

John Filliter

That’s excellent.? Thanks, Anita.

Now let’s hope that one of our group can arrange the Zoom meeting by then.

John

On Nov 23, 2020, at 5:13 PM, Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@...> wrote:

They can be any card you have in the cupboard! At some point, just put Trudeau's address on it and drop it in the mailbox, no postage required.

If anyone is feeling creative and wants to make something custom calling for a CA and take pictures of it, or print out one of the designs we're using for the ones ordered online below, that's?great.?If you want to read a poem, sing a carol or do anything else you can take a picture or short video of, also great!?

But to make it easy for anyone to participate in these Zoom meetings with very little effort, any card is what we're asking for!?

The point is just to show on Dec 12 that Trudeau is getting lots of cards from real individuals and groups of people across Canada!?

Anita

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:03 PM John Filliter <johndfilliter@...> wrote:

Are these supposed to be the actual cards we sent, Anita, or just any Christmas cards?

I’d have to go looking in the archives to try to find which one I chose - there were several good ones, as I recall.

John

On Nov 23, 2020, at 4:36 PM, Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@...> wrote:

Hey New Brunswick team :)

Would you be able to help us out with the federal campaign by doing the holiday cards to Trudeau thing? Basically it involves:

a) Pick a Zoom date for a 15 minutes meeting - before December 12

b) Find any holiday card you have at home

c) I'll send out an email to all of NB inviting people to help by grabbing a card and joining the Zoom meeting

d) Take some screenshots of all of you holding?up cards to Trudeau on the Zoom meeting

e) Send me the best picture of the group!

f) On December 12 FVC is going to be sharing pictures from groups across Canada doing this to promote our holiday card action! ("Citizens from New Brunswick join thousands across Canada sending holiday cards to Justin Trudeau calling for a National Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform!?@JustinTrudeau?#MakeYourVoiceHeard #cdnpoli #ERRE). Local groups with any social media account can also share themselves.

(See??for longer version of same explanation?:)

Anita

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Proportional representation delivers more of what YOU voted for!?
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Are these supposed to be the actual cards we sent, Anita, or just any Christmas cards?

I’d have to go looking in the archives to try to find which one I chose - there were several good ones, as I recall.

John

On Nov 23, 2020, at 4:36 PM, Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@...> wrote:

Hey New Brunswick team :)

Would you be able to help us out with the federal campaign by doing the holiday cards to Trudeau thing? Basically it involves:

a) Pick a Zoom date for a 15 minutes meeting - before December 12

b) Find any holiday card you have at home

c) I'll send out an email to all of NB inviting people to help by grabbing a card and joining the Zoom meeting

d) Take some screenshots of all of you holding?up cards to Trudeau on the Zoom meeting

e) Send me the best picture of the group!

f) On December 12 FVC is going to be sharing pictures from groups across Canada doing this to promote our holiday card action! ("Citizens from New Brunswick join thousands across Canada sending holiday cards to Justin Trudeau calling for a National Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform!?@JustinTrudeau?#MakeYourVoiceHeard #cdnpoli #ERRE). Local groups with any social media account can also share themselves.

(See for longer version of same explanation?:)

Anita

Looking good, Vivian.

I really like the appearance of your maps now.

John

On Nov 23, 2020, at 11:58 AM, Vivian <vivian.unger@...> wrote:

I've added a paragraph about the McKenna clean sweep. I also took a look at the 2004 report and found out that the commission was called the "Commission on Legislative Democracy," so I corrected that. Here's what we have now:?

I've also made my painted NB map into a meme, using Canva. See attached image.

FVC TO did a webinar about Canva, and it really is a terrific tool. If you're interested, you can watch a recording of that webinar here:?

Next thing to do is get the text translated into French.

Vivian

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 10:59, John Filliter <johndfilliter@...> wrote:

I don’t object to your new format, Vivian, though I do have a few suggestions.

In the third sentence, I’d change “an election” to “the majority of seats”.

In the fifth sentence, I’d say “under 40%” rather than “only 39%”.

In the third paragraph, I’d change “amplifies” to “exaggerates” and replace the two “nothings” with “no seats” and “none” respectively.? In the last sentence I’d insert “really” between “it” and “is”.

In the fourth paragraph, I’d insert “provincial” before “Electoral Reform Commission” or add “appointed by Premier Lord” after it.

I note that you have removed reference to the McKenna landslide - where all seats were won based on only 60% or so of the vote.? I thought that was a great reminder to the PCs of how they too have suffered as a result of our obsolete FPTP system.

At any rate, these are just suggestions.

John

On Nov 21, 2020, at 1:43 PM, Vivian <vivian.unger@...> wrote:

Hello again,

I hope I'm not driving you all nuts with this, but I've rewritten the petition. You see, I got to thinking about literacy.?

If we're going to reach more people, we need more accessible writing, especially in NB, which has a pretty low literacy rate. But the original petition text tested as "college level" and "very difficult" according to?.

So I rewrote the petition to be easier to read. It says pretty much the same thing, just in different words. Here's the new text.

As long as no one objects, I'd like to go with this version.

Thanks,

Vivian Unger

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Land of the Wabanaki Confederacy: Wolastokuk (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq

BOOK INDEXING SERVICES

FICTION

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I don’t object to your new format, Vivian, though I do have a few suggestions.

In the third sentence, I’d change “an election” to “the majority of seats”.

In the fifth sentence, I’d say “under 40%” rather than “only 39%”.

In the third paragraph, I’d change “amplifies” to “exaggerates” and replace the two “nothings” with “no seats” and “none” respectively.? In the last sentence I’d insert “really” between “it” and “is”.

In the fourth paragraph, I’d insert “provincial” before “Electoral Reform Commission” or add “appointed by Premier Lord” after it.

I note that you have removed reference to the McKenna landslide - where all seats were won based on only 60% or so of the vote.? I thought that was a great reminder to the PCs of how they too have suffered as a result of our obsolete FPTP system.

At any rate, these are just suggestions.

John

On Nov 21, 2020, at 1:43 PM, Vivian <vivian.unger@...> wrote:

Hello again,

I hope I'm not driving you all nuts with this, but I've rewritten the petition. You see, I got to thinking about literacy.?

If we're going to reach more people, we need more accessible writing, especially in NB, which has a pretty low literacy rate. But the original petition text tested as "college level" and "very difficult" according to .

So I rewrote the petition to be easier to read. It says pretty much the same thing, just in different words. Here's the new text.

As long as no one objects, I'd like to go with this version.

Thanks,

Vivian Unger

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Land of the Wabanaki Confederacy: Wolastokuk (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq

BOOK INDEXING SERVICES

FICTION

I don’t object to your new format, Vivian, though I do have a few suggestions.

In the third sentence, I’d change “an election” to “the majority of seats”.

In the fifth sentence, I’d say “under 40%” rather than “only 39%”.

In the third paragraph, I’d change “amplifies” to “exaggerates” and replace the two “nothings” with “no seats” and “none” respectively.? In the last sentence I’d insert “really” between “it” and “is”.

In the fourth paragraph, I’d insert “provincial” before “Electoral Reform Commission” or add “appointed by Premier Lord” after it.

I note that you have removed reference to the McKenna landslide - where all seats were won based on only 60% or so of the vote.? I thought that was a great reminder to the PCs of how they too have suffered as a result of our obsolete FPTP system.

At any rate, these are just suggestions.

John

On Nov 21, 2020, at 1:43 PM, Vivian <vivian.unger@...> wrote:

Hello again,

I hope I'm not driving you all nuts with this, but I've rewritten the petition. You see, I got to thinking about literacy.?

If we're going to reach more people, we need more accessible writing, especially in NB, which has a pretty low literacy rate. But the original petition text tested as "college level" and "very difficult" according to .

So I rewrote the petition to be easier to read. It says pretty much the same thing, just in different words. Here's the new text.

As long as no one objects, I'd like to go with this version.

Thanks,

Vivian Unger

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Land of the Wabanaki Confederacy: Wolastokuk (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq

BOOK INDEXING SERVICES

FICTION