[GREN-Exec] 2019 Federal Election Forum update from 100 Debates
Susan Koswan
susankoswan at execulink.com
Thu Jul 11 00:15:19 EDT 2019
Hi Everyone,
Meena (from REEP) and I both went to the meeting tonight for the 100
Debates. The plan is to have a debate in each riding which will be
live-streamed on Facebook and also recorded. All candidates will receive
4 questions ahead of the event to prepare their personal plan to deal
with climate change, water, wildlife and pollution/toxics. We're still
short of a team in Cambridge, so I said I would ask Stephanie or maybe
even Bob Burtt to see if they can pull enough people together to do this.
Also we can come up with our own local issues to ask them about. They
thought GREN would be good to do that, but I'm sure everyone else can do
so also.
All the debates across the country including our area will be October 7,
2019 from 7 - 9.
100 Debates provides a planning kit which is pretty straightforward.
Tonight was getting the people attending into their riding groups and
I'm hoping Laura will be able to provide the person taking the lead on
organizing these for all of us to connect with. It means meeting with
your riding people (and they started lists tonight), getting a location
ASAP that will hold about 200 people, an experienced moderator and them
promoting the heck out of it.
So they've made it very easy for us. All of us can participate as
individuals, rather than representing organizations, so that the
appearance is that environmental issues are universal - exactly as they
should be.
Meena - did I miss anything.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Susan
On 7/5/2019 6:14 AM, Mary Jane Patterson wrote:
> It would be a very interesting experiment in a lot of ways. Who knows
> how to do it. How much time does each one take. Do they answer the
> questions... If we do it early enough we would have time to do
> something else if they don't go along with it.
>
> Definitely saves time and organizing efforts.
>
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> *From:* Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 5, 2019 12:25:18 AM
> *To:* Mary Jane Patterson; Samantha Tremmel; Stacey Danckert
> *Cc:* executive at gren.ca; Tova Davidson; Stephanie Sobek-Swant; Hold
> the Line WR; Marcia Ruby; Nicole & Stacey at Waterloo Region
> Environmental Network (WREN)
> *Subject:* Re: Federal Environmental Election Forum
>
> 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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