Fwd: Information about MyDemocracy survey
Sue Honsl
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From: "Katelynn Northam - Leadnow.ca" <lea...@leadnow.ca>
Date: December 18, 2016 at 7:04:46 PM EST
To: sueh...@sympatico.ca
Subject: Information about MyDemocracy survey
Reply-To: "Katelynn Northam - Leadnow.ca" <lea...@leadnow.ca>
Dear Sue,
Many of you have asked us about the government’s new online survey on electoral reform at MyDemocracy.ca.
We won’t mince words - it’s a flawed survey and is biased against proportional representation. It looks designed to avoid producing real answers to the question of what should replace first-past-the-post. It doesn’t give a clear way to express your preference for proportional representation over other voting systems.
Unfortunately, it will likely also influence the government's final decision on voting reform.
Fortunately, our friends at Fair Vote have created a guide to filling out the survey that lets you come as possible to expressing support for PR. Click here to check it out.
I'd like to check out Fair Vote's survey guide
After you read Fair Vote’s helpful explainer on the survey’s questions, it directs you right to the government’s MyDemocracy.ca survey so you can fill it out right away.
The government’s survey is flawed but it is another way to inform their final decision on electoral reform. If we can show the results of the survey reflect the public’s desire for more fairness in our voting systems, we have one more piece of evidence that PR is the way forward.
Here’s the link to Fair Vote's guide again: http://mycanadiandemocracy.ca/
If you already did the survey or just want another way to send a strong message to the Liberals, there’s another option. Remember those postcards about the government’s survey that some people received in early December? They looked like this:
We are encouraging people who got a postcard to write a personal message on it and mail it back to the government. For example, you could write “Your survey didn’t ask, but I support PR”. Here’s an example of something else you could write:
Take a picture of your postcard before you mail it, and tweet it using #keepthepromise. Then you can send it postage-free to Prime Minister Trudeau.
The PM’s mailing address is:
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A2Remember - you don’t need to include postage on letters sent to MPs!
If you didn’t get a postcard, consider instead sending an email about the flawed survey directly to Justin Trudeau and Maryam Monsef through our ‘send a message’ feature at www.votebetter.ca.
We hope this is helpful! We’ll be in touch in the new year to talk more about the next phase of the Vote Better campaign.
Best wishes,
Katelynn and Rachel on behalf of the Leadnow team
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brendan hennigan
Hi Sue,
I did the survey. It was pathetic. No wonder so many people are complaining about the poor quality of the survey.
Many of the questions were confusing or loaded. Why did the government need to know your gender, salary scale and postal code? The survey was not anonymous - you had to give an email address.
Whether your are for the status quo or electoral reform this survey is a con.
Grade F from me.
Thanks for forwarding the survey.
Regards,
Brendan
Sent: December 19, 2016 10:26 PM