[GREN-Exec] Kitchener Conestoga debate planning meeting
Susan Koswan
susankoswan at execulink.com
Fri Jul 12 11:50:34 EDT 2019
Hi Again,
If you are interested in being on the planning committee for the debate
for Kitchener-Conestoga, the EcoBusters in New Hamburg are taking the
lead on this.
The next meeting is: *Tuesday, July 30th from 10:00AM to 12:00 Noon *at
*141 Hostetler Road, New Hamburg*.
As this is where I will be putting my time and energy for this election,
I will leave it up to all of you to contact Jim Marston
jimmarst at gmail.com or Laura laura at divestwaterloo.ca to get access to the
google drive files for these debates and get on their email list to help
the debate in your riding.
Best,
Susan K
On 7/11/2019 5:16 PM, Mary Jane Patterson wrote:
>
> Very helpful Susan! Sounds like great support and a chance to be part
> of something bigger. Thanks for being there – you too Meena!
>
> MJ
>
> *From:*Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com>
> *Sent:* July 11, 2019 12:15 AM
> *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>; David
> McConnachie <davidamcconnachie at gmail.com>; Meena Waseem
> <mwaseem at reepgreen.ca>; laura at divestwaterloo.ca
> *Subject:* 2019 Federal Election Forum update from 100 Debates
>
> 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.
>
> Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:*Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com>
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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>
> <mailto:susankoswan at execulink.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:20 PM
> *To:* Mary Jane Patterson <mjpatterson at reepgreen.ca>
> <mailto:mjpatterson at reepgreen.ca>; Samantha Tremmel
> <samantha.tremmel at climateactionwr.ca>
> <mailto:samantha.tremmel at climateactionwr.ca>; Stacey Danckert
> <sdanckert at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> <mailto:sdanckert at wrenvironetwork.ca>
> *Cc:* 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
>
> 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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