Secretariat of Mr. Dion, with pertinent copies.

Respected Leaders of the Liberal, NDP and Green Parties,

Mr. Danny Williams, Hon NL Premier, has been eloquent in persuading most Canadian electors that in the next election the conservatives must be expelled from Parliament, because of their betrayal of Canada and of the rights of all Canadians. The majority favorable to contain the present conservative fraud is evident in every community, even if the corporate press hides the polls that demonstrate that the conservatives are around 10 points below the Liberals on the grass roots of the electorate.

The adoption of a Democratic electoral system of proportional representation will facilitate the objectives to:

1) Elect Mr. Dion as the Prime Minister because he is honest, has solutions for the problems and is capable to act and take decisions,

2) Give proportional representation in Parliament to the other democratic parties, the NDP and the Green, as members of the governing coalition, and

3) Give the Conservatives the Opposition with the number of MPs that corresponds exactly to the lowest percentage that they will receive in the next election.

The Opposition today which is presently a majority not counting the Bloc could pass a reform to the electoral system of Canada and achieve proportional representation in the House of Commons. There are many formulas existing in advanced democracies and the coalition of Liberals, NDPs and Greens could adopt the simplest which is the national percentage must be reflected in the final structure of the House.

For instance, in the next election nationally the Liberals may obtain 35%, the conservatives 30%, the NDP 25% and the Green 10% (I ignore the bloc for simplicity of numbers). If the House has 305 MPs, the Liberals would sit 107, the Conservatives 92, the NDP 77 and the Green would sit 30, which give 306 because there are no fractioned MPs. Well, the next Parliament will have 306 members. The leaders must now make a formal honorable agreement to go to the elections as a democratic coalition that would represent all Canadians. One week before the election, in every riding the three presidents must evaluate the status of the campaign, and withdraw the two candidates that are rated 2nd and 3rd in the coalition. The Conservatives who are destined to be the Opposition can do whatever they wish with their members. It will not affect the results and, in the example, will fatally get 92 MPs, probably none of them ex ministers, but new comers of the progressive wing of the party that today does not exist.

The coalition is an emergency in the present political circus. It must be a temporary, disciplined association of responsible political entities that go to the House to represent the Canadian people and to honor their electoral commitments by implementing the solutions that deserved the attention and the vote of the electorate. In that coalition the Liberals would have overall responsibility in Foreign Affairs, Trade, Defense, in ensuring the fiscal equality among provinces and territories, and would manage the standards of excellence of Medicare, Social Services and Education. The members in the Coalition are: 107 + 77 +30 = 214, and their percentages at the interior of the group are 50% liberal ministers, 36% NDP Ministers and 14% Green Ministers. The coalition must remain united and bonded until all the electoral promises have been implemented. After that, the parties may recover their independence if they so wish because the Coalition was temporary necessary to rescue the Nation from the catastrophe of Harper.

I am sure that the three political parties of this mythical coalition may think that I am dreaming in Technicolor. Those politicians in the three parties that could be considered statespersons may appreciate that either the political parties discipline themselves in a democratic coalition accountable to the electorate, or they will ruin the future by allowing the fraud of Harper to continue as cynically as is being paraded today. This is the only solution that will sustain the proposals of Mr. Danny Williams. Politicians must cut themselves to size: Global Warming demands statespersons. The demagogues of all the political parties in Canada (that are too many) are now a vanishing species.

You must all retain that the catastrophic political emergency is real as long as Harper is permitted to expand the fraud of his Government and that there is still time to approve in the House an electoral law that will give Canada proportional representation.

Respectfully,

Jorge Torrealba,

Halifax, NS.

Cc: The Three Leaders,

Mr. Danny Williams, NL Premier,

Presidents of the three political parties.