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<p>Hi Everyone,</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>All the debates across the country including our area will be
October 7, 2019 from 7 - 9. <br>
</p>
<p>100 Debates provides a planning kit which is pretty
straightforward. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>Meena - did I miss anything. <br>
</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any questions. <br>
</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Susan <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/5/2019 6:14 AM, Mary Jane
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It would be a very interesting experiment in a lot of ways. Who
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Koswan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com"><susankoswan@execulink.com></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 5, 2019 12:25:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mary Jane Patterson; Samantha Tremmel; Stacey
Danckert<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:executive@gren.ca">executive@gren.ca</a>; Tova Davidson; Stephanie
Sobek-Swant; Hold the Line WR; Marcia Ruby; Nicole &
Stacey at Waterloo Region Environmental Network (WREN)<br>
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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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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to do an interview or two. Not sure we’d have capacity
to organize it all.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
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color:windowtext"> Susan Koswan
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"><susankoswan@execulink.com></a>
<br>
<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"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<mjpatterson@reepgreen.ca></a>; Samantha
Tremmel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca></a>;
Stacey Danckert <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<sdanckert@wrenvironetwork.ca></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:executive@gren.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">executive@gren.ca</a>; Tova
Davidson
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:tova.davidson@sustainablewr.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><tova.davidson@sustainablewr.ca></a>;
Stephanie Sobek-Swant
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<stephanie.sobek-swant@raresites.org></a>;
Hold the Line WR <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:connect@holdthelinewr.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<connect@holdthelinewr.org></a>; Marcia Ruby
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:marcia@alternativesjournal.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true">
<marcia@alternativesjournal.ca></a>; Nicole
& Stacey at Waterloo Region Environmental
Network (WREN)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:hello@wrenvironetwork.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><hello@wrenvironetwork.ca></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Federal Environmental Election
Forum</span></p>
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<p>Hi all,</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.
</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.
</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.
</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. ;-)</p>
<p>Susan K</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 6/27/2019 2:02 PM, Mary Jane
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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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></p>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Samantha
Tremmel
<a href="mailto:samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><samantha.tremmel@climateactionwr.ca></a>
<br>
<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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone,</p>
<div>
<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.</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:</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?'</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.?' </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. </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>>
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really like MJ's thoughts on the
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Region Environment Network</span></p>
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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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