Proportional Respresentation
Yesterday, Christine and I attended a craft fair. There was supposed to be a guy who makes amplifiers (guitar?) out of old household appliances: toasters, coffee makers, televisions, etc.. Needless to say I was pretty excited to go; I planned on buying at least ten different amplifiers. It turned out that he pulled out of the fair at the last minute, so it was mostly a bust.
After browsing umpteen tables of jewellery made out of buttons, printed circuit boards, and old clothes I was relieved to come to a table with some guy determined to solve the issue of the day. I asked him what he was all about and he said that he wanted to see proportional representation introduced for Alberta. He was about to start up into his speech, but before he could say anything more I asked him if he had a petition. He looked a little disappointed (no one else was talking to him) but said that he did, so I signed it and told him good luck.
Christine came by and signed also, again only allowing him a few words and picked up a brochure. I don’t pick up brochures. It has a website for those who are interested: http://www.fairvote.ca. Although the website has no information about the Alberta petition. I wonder if he brought the wrong brochures?
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
The petition is on the website at http://www.fairvote.ca/files/FVAPetition.pdf.
Thanks for signing the petition. We really appreciate your support.
The response we received at the fair was much larger than we expected. We ran out of Fair Vote Alberta brochures, but still had Fair Vote Alberta fact sheets and Fair Vote Canada brochures.
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hello, Doug. Thanks for the information…I didn’t think that anyone read my blog. That explains the brochures and who would have thought that craft fair goers were so concerned about politics?