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From: <b class="yiv1840224433gmail_sendername">Jennifer Ross</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jenn@jenniferross.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:jenn@jenniferross.ca">jenn@jenniferross.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:49 PM<br>Subject: [capp] Cooperate for Canada Event, Thurs. Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.<br>
To: <b>Canadians Advocating Political Participation</b> <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:capp@sobac.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:capp@sobac.com">capp@sobac.com</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<div><font face="Arial">Dear Waterloo Region CAPPers,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">This Waterloo
event is a first in Canada, and the topic may be of high interest
to a lot of you. Please, come have your say - share your support, your
concern, or get help to make up your mind - on the movement for
party cooperation that is catching fire across Canada! </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">And please share widely.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Anita and Jenn</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Citizens for Cross-Party Cooperation
KW</font></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;" align="center"><font color="#000000"><font face="Impact, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:72pt;" size="7"><b><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Cooperate for
Canada</span></b></font></font></font></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size:32pt;" size="7"><b>Thursday February 16, <br></b></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size:32pt;" size="7"><b>7 PM</b></font></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;" align="center"><font size="7"><b><font face="Arial">Waterloo Inn</font></b></font></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;" align="center"><font size="5"><b>Featuring:</b></font></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><font style="font-size:22pt;" size="6"><font color="#c5000b"><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><b>Liberal</b></font></font></font><font color="#c5000b"><font face="Arial"><font size="5">:</font></font></font><font face="Arial"><font> </font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="4">John
Deverell, Policy Director of the Pickering-Scarborough East federal Liberal
Association</font></font></font></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;" align="left"><br></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><font><font color="#ff420e"><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><b>NDP:</b></font></font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="5">
</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="4">Jamie Heath, Nathan Cullen Campaign
Manager, former Research and Communications Director to Jack
Layton,</font></font></font></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><br></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><font face="Arial"><font><font color="#5c8526"><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="5"><b><font size="5">Green</font>:</b></font></font><font color="#5c8526">:</font> <font size="4">Katherine Acheson, Campaign Manager for Elizabeth
May</font></font></font></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><font face="Arial"></font><font face="Arial"></font><img style="width:107px;min-height:34px;" alt="" width="107" align="baseline" border="0" height="49" hspace="0"><font face="Arial" size="4"> Matthew Carroll, Director of
the Leadnow Campaign "Cooperate for Canada"</font></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><br><b><font size="5">Speakers to be
followed by Q+A and <br></font></b></div><div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><b><font size="5">town hall style discussion</font></b></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Free event, no registration, everyone welcome. More
info: <a rel="nofollow">lanickerson@b2b2c.ca</a></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>More
info:</font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>You
may be interested in a groundbreaking event we’re convening this Thursday
in Kitchener-Waterloo.<br></font></font><br><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen has attracted attention by
proposing the unthinkable – opposition party cooperation. He wants the NDP,
Liberals and Greens to run jointly nominated candidates to defeat
the Conservative federal government and bring in democratic voting
reform. </font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>Leadnow.ca just floated the party cooperation idea to their
supporters, first on social media and then in a survey to their 80,000
supporters. Based on an overwhelming "yes", they have just launched the
campaign "Cooperate for Canada", which has gained thousands of supporters in a
few days. </font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>Apparently ordinary Canadians are willing not only to
support party cooperation but to join the NDP, Liberal and Green parties to
bend the ears of the people whot make the decisions. Grassroots groups are
springing up across Canada to help launch this initiative.</font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>The
parties may not be happy about this, but voters want a Parliament which works
for them.</font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>"Cooperate for Canada" is the </font></font><i><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>first event in
Canada</font></font></i><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font> in which
someone from each of the centre-left parties, plus Leadnow, will speak
publicly about the need <font face="Bauhaus 93">to explore </font>party
cooperation to defeat the Conservatives and show how it can be
done.</font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font> We’d be very happy to see you at the meeting on
Thursday.</font></font></div></div></font></div></div>
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