Joyce Murray, MP Vancouver Quadra
Room 508, Wellington Building
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Dear Ms. Murray
In 2013, during the Liberal
Part of Canada leadership race, I was asked to introduce you at a campaign stop
in Edmonton. I was glad to do so for two reasons: your position on pricing
carbon and electoral reform.
On electoral reform, you expressed
a deep commitment to proportional representation. “The first-past-the-post
system is damaging Canada's democracy right now,” you said at a campaign stop in
Guelph. “That is not what's needed when
we are in a complex country with complex challenges. We have to work together.”
John Huizinga was impressed with
your ideas. Her position on electoral reform “make[s] her stand out from the
crowd,” he wrote in the Vancouver Sun.
Ms Murray, tomorrow, Wednesday,
May 31, you will have another opportunity to stand out from the crowd. The House
of Commons is expected to vote on a motion to adopt the report of the all-party
committee on electoral reform.
I’m sure the Prime Minister, who
turned his back on his promise to make every vote count, is expecting all his
MPs to vote against the motion, but I’m hoping that you and at least 19 of you Liberal
colleagues will take advantage of the opportunity to do what’s needed for a
complex country with complex challenges: Vote to adopt the committee’s
report.
Yours, truly
Peter Adamski
