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<p>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?</p>
<p>Susan K <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/4/2019 6:07 PM, Mary Jane
Patterson wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi
Susan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Nice
idea with the interviews. I’m game to do an interview or
two. Not sure we’d have capacity to organize it all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">MJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">
Susan Koswan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com"><susankoswan@execulink.com></a>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mary Jane Patterson
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mjpatterson@reepgreen.ca"><mjpatterson@reepgreen.ca></a>; Samantha Tremmel
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca"><samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca></a>; Stacey
Danckert <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca"><sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:executive@gren.ca">executive@gren.ca</a>; Tova Davidson
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tova.davidson@sustainablewr.ca"><tova.davidson@sustainablewr.ca></a>; Stephanie
Sobek-Swant <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org"><stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org></a>;
Hold the Line WR <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:connect@holdthelinewr.org"><connect@holdthelinewr.org></a>;
Marcia Ruby <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marcia@alternativesjournal.ca"><marcia@alternativesjournal.ca></a>;
Nicole & Stacey at Waterloo Region Environmental
Network (WREN) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hello@wrenvironetwork.ca"><hello@wrenvironetwork.ca></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Federal Environmental Election Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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. ;-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Susan K<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 6/27/2019 2:02 PM, Mary Jane Patterson
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers,
MJ</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
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Samantha Tremmel
<a href="mailto:samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca></a>
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<b>Sent:</b> June 27, 2019 1:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stacey Danckert <a
href="mailto:sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mary Jane Patterson <a
href="mailto:mjpatterson@reepgreen.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><mjpatterson@reepgreen.ca></a>;
Susan Koswan
<a href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"><susankoswan@execulink.com></a>;
<a href="mailto:executive@gren.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">
executive@gren.ca</a>; Tova Davidson <a
href="mailto:tova.davidson@sustainablewr.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<tova.davidson@sustainablewr.ca></a>; Stephanie
Sobek-Swant <a
href="mailto:stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org></a>; Hold
the Line WR <a href="mailto:connect@holdthelinewr.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<connect@holdthelinewr.org></a>; Marcia Ruby <a
href="mailto:marcia@alternativesjournal.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<marcia@alternativesjournal.ca></a>; Nicole &
Stacey at Waterloo Region Environmental Network (WREN)
<a href="mailto:hello@wrenvironetwork.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><hello@wrenvironetwork.ca></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Federal Environmental Election Forum</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The final question is still being
determined, but it will likely be a 2-parter along the
lines of:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) 'What is your climate action
plan'/ 'What is your stance on the current state of
the environment?'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) 'What <i>specific</i> actions
do you plan to take in order to address climate
change. I.E carbon tax etc.?' <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Samantha<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:36 AM
Stacey Danckert <<a
href="mailto:sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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really like MJ's thoughts on the
format....Stacey.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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WREN</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Region Environment Network</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-top:7.5pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#AAAAAA">On
2019-06-17 2:30:55 PM, Mary Jane Patterson
<<a href="mailto:mjpatterson@reepgreen.ca"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mjpatterson@reepgreen.ca</a>>
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Susan,
<br>
<br>
1. Reep is in. Thanks for getting this
started. <br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
3. Who else? Divest Waterloo is one other
potential group that comes to mind. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Just a thought, open to others. <br>
<br>
Thanks, MJ <br>
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-----Original Message----- <br>
From: Susan Koswan <br>
Sent: June 17, 2019 1:57 PM <br>
To: GREN Executive ; Mary Jane Patterson ;
Tova Davidson ; <a
href="mailto:stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org</a>; <a
href="mailto:connect@holdthelinewr.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
connect@holdthelinewr.org</a>; <a
href="mailto:marcia@alternativesjournal.ca"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
marcia@alternativesjournal.ca</a>; <a
href="mailto:hello@wrenvironetwork.ca"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
hello@wrenvironetwork.ca</a> <br>
Subject: Federal Environmental Election
Forum <br>
<br>
Hi Everyone, <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.
<a href="https://www.100debates.ca/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.100debates.ca/</a>
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
Questions: <br>
<br>
1) do we do this again? <br>
<br>
2) do we align with this org'n? <br>
<br>
3) if so, same format or suggested
improvements? <br>
<br>
4) any other groups we want to bring in? <br>
<br>
5) something else we could do? <br>
<br>
Thanks <br>
<br>
Susan Koswan <br>
<br>
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