[GREN-Exec] Federal Environmental Election Forum
Susan Koswan
susankoswan at execulink.com
Fri Jul 5 00:25:18 EDT 2019
So here's a thought. Everyone has a cell phone video camera. Why don't
we send x number of questions to each of the candidates, have them film
themselves answering them, and then post them on a website?
Susan K
On 7/4/2019 6:07 PM, Mary Jane Patterson wrote:
>
> Hi Susan,
>
> Nice idea with the interviews. I’m game to do an interview or two. Not
> sure we’d have capacity to organize it all.
>
> MJ
>
> *From:*Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:20 PM
> *To:* Mary Jane Patterson <mjpatterson at reepgreen.ca>; Samantha Tremmel
> <samantha.tremmel at climateactionwr.ca>; Stacey Danckert
> <sdanckert at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> *Cc:* executive at gren.ca; Tova Davidson
> <tova.davidson at sustainablewr.ca>; Stephanie Sobek-Swant
> <stephanie.sobek-swant at raresites.org>; Hold the Line WR
> <connect at holdthelinewr.org>; Marcia Ruby
> <marcia at alternativesjournal.ca>; Nicole & Stacey at Waterloo Region
> Environmental Network (WREN) <hello at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> *Subject:* Re: Federal Environmental Election Forum
>
> Hi all,
>
> Yes, I included the link to GreenPAC in my first email. :-) I wanted
> to know if anyone else had heard of them, or who they are. The only
> response I've had to my email inquiry was that they received it.
>
> But, having a forum was suggested at the Environmental Defence
> "Ontario is not for sale" event recently and they said they could
> connect us, so I'm trying that route now. I'm completely supportive of
> working with an existing effort. Based on what I can see, we have to
> organize the debates, but then their website would list us as having
> one. They list by riding rather than region, but I don't think we have
> the capacity to do that - as much as I'd like to.
>
> Another thought is to have someone from our respective groups
> interviewing each candidate for 10 minutes or so, rather than having a
> big public event. All we need is a location in each riding where we
> invite all the candidates for their time-slot, someone to interview,
> someone to film - even my cellphone takes great videos - and a place
> to post the videos.
>
> Someone did that, but longer interviews, for the last municipal
> election I believe, and it's good. Nice to have a record to hold the
> eventual victor to account. ;-)
>
> Susan K
>
> On 6/27/2019 2:02 PM, Mary Jane Patterson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve heard the GreenPAC is sponsoring 100 debates across the
> country. If anyone has time to look into it, we may find that one
> will be here in our Region, and we could put our energy into
> getting people to that debate.
>
> Cheers, MJ
>
> *From:*Samantha Tremmel <samantha.tremmel at climateactionwr.ca>
> <mailto:samantha.tremmel at climateactionwr.ca>
> *Sent:* June 27, 2019 1:42 PM
> *To:* Stacey Danckert <sdanckert at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> <mailto:sdanckert at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> *Cc:* Mary Jane Patterson <mjpatterson at reepgreen.ca>
> <mailto:mjpatterson at reepgreen.ca>; Susan Koswan
> <susankoswan at execulink.com> <mailto:susankoswan at execulink.com>;
> executive at gren.ca <mailto:executive at gren.ca>; Tova Davidson
> <tova.davidson at sustainablewr.ca>
> <mailto:tova.davidson at sustainablewr.ca>; Stephanie Sobek-Swant
> <stephanie.sobek-swant at raresites.org>
> <mailto:stephanie.sobek-swant at raresites.org>; Hold the Line WR
> <connect at holdthelinewr.org> <mailto:connect at holdthelinewr.org>;
> Marcia Ruby <marcia at alternativesjournal.ca>
> <mailto:marcia at alternativesjournal.ca>; Nicole & Stacey at
> Waterloo Region Environmental Network (WREN)
> <hello at wrenvironetwork.ca> <mailto:hello at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> *Subject:* Re: Federal Environmental Election Forum
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> As MJ mentioned, ClimateActionWR currently has a volunteer in the
> capacity of 'Elections Researcher' who will be defining a key
> question(s) that will be posted to all candidates, and we will
> issue their responses, verbatim, in a public document to inform
> citizens on the candidates stance on climate change/climate action.
>
> The final question is still being determined, but it will likely
> be a 2-parter along the lines of:
>
> 1) 'What is your climate action plan'/ 'What is your stance on
> the current state of the environment?'
>
> 2) 'What /specific/ actions do you plan to take in order to
> address climate change. I.E carbon tax etc.?'
>
> Will update everyone once we have the final version and really
> looking forward to the possibility of another forum. I have been
> asked by a few people lately if this would be on the radar, so
> there's definitely public interest in it.
>
> Samantha
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:36 AM Stacey Danckert
> <sdanckert at wrenvironetwork.ca
> <mailto:sdanckert at wrenvironetwork.ca>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I really like MJ's thoughts on the format....Stacey.
>
> Co-Director, WREN
>
> Waterloo Region Environment Network
>
> wrenvironetwork.ca <http://wrenvironetwork.ca>
>
> On 2019-06-17 2:30:55 PM, Mary Jane Patterson
> <mjpatterson at reepgreen.ca
> <mailto:mjpatterson at reepgreen.ca>> wrote:
>
> Hi Susan,
>
> 1. Reep is in. Thanks for getting this started.
>
> 2. CAWR is going to be asking questions of the candidates
> and posting responses - I've drawn Samantha Tremmel,
> Acting Plan Manager into the thread so she can explain
> what that will be. Maybe just 1 or 2 questions.
>
> 3. Who else? Divest Waterloo is one other potential group
> that comes to mind.
>
> 4. Re format - it has worked when there are so many
> candidates, as with municipal election. I don't know that
> it's very effective in really understanding the difference
> between candidates when there's so little time to hear
> from them. I think it would be good to have a more
> thoughtful process, that could possibly build on the
> questions that CAWR is asking, or one question per
> organization, or one question per environmental topic.
> Candidates could provide a written response that we post,
> and then have a whopping 5 minutes to touch on any aspect
> of those questions.
>
> Just a thought, open to others.
>
> Thanks, MJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Koswan
> Sent: June 17, 2019 1:57 PM
> To: GREN Executive ; Mary Jane Patterson ; Tova Davidson ;
> stephanie.sobek-swant at raresites.org
> <mailto:stephanie.sobek-swant at raresites.org>;
> connect at holdthelinewr.org
> <mailto:connect at holdthelinewr.org>;
> marcia at alternativesjournal.ca
> <mailto:marcia at alternativesjournal.ca>;
> hello at wrenvironetwork.ca <mailto:hello at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> Subject: Federal Environmental Election Forum
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It's not too early to start thinking about and planning an
> Environmental Election Forum. I've included all of you
> from the 2018 Municipal election and attached the handout
> we sent to all the candidates. If you're interested in
> doing this again for the Federal election, let me know.
>
> I found this on-line - not sure who is behind it - but
> they're trying to get 100 eco-election forums on the same
> date, Monday October 7, 2019. I contacted them to get more
> info because the website has almost nothing.
> https://www.100debates.ca/
>
> As a reminder, we have held ours at Walter Fedy on Queen
> St in Kitchener, inviting all the candidates running in
> Waterloo, giving them each 2-3 minutes by riding, and
> providing coffee tea snacks in the outside area where
> people can mingle and speak directly.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) do we do this again?
>
> 2) do we align with this org'n?
>
> 3) if so, same format or suggested improvements?
>
> 4) any other groups we want to bring in?
>
> 5) something else we could do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Susan Koswan
>
>
>
> --
>
> Samantha Tremmel
>
> 80 by 50 Project Coordinator, ClimateActionWR
>
> 226-476-1659 |samantha.tremmel at climateactionwr.ca
> <mailto:samantha.tremmel at climateactionwr.ca>
>
> www.climateactionwr.ca <http://www.climateactionwr.ca/>
>
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