FCM Workshop: From Local Strategy to Action

Polling, Effective Advocacy and the Permanent Campaign David Coletto.

• Every day is election day in Canada
• Susan Dellacourt (I have read her and she helped me better understand how political parties are acting)
• Permanent campaign is changing things, mobilize citizens for issues
• Government is overtly political
• NDP now has largest pool; CPC has third smallest (Liberals are second)
• Left/right doesn't exist anymore; voters aren't ideological
• 20% of Wildrose in the last election voted NDP this time
• Provide data to support importance to party (for lobbying - how will our request help the party)
• How do municipal issues affect people's lives?



Abacus Research. June 6, 2015






Municipal Issues, Abacus Research. June 6, 2015

 



 Support of each party for increasing spending on public transit. Abacus Research. June 6, 2014




• Municipal issues are not partisan -
• Municipal Priorities
• $340 million on municipal priorities is what each party supports selects in surveys (this translates to 34%)
• 78% want money transferred for infrastructure rather than reduced taxes.

Peter Robinson, David Suzuki Foundation

• Retail is a relationship not a transaction
• A change to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms - right to healthy environment
• Lot of front end work and prep
• 98% nature is essential
• 75% environmental rights should be in the Charter
• 56% nature always comes first
• How do deep change?
• Not with feds
• Focus on municipal level
• Where is the power? People across nation and by area
• Gibson BC includes Natural Capital in budget considerations
• Leverage power across country

Their 'Blue Dot Tour' is to gain support to put the environment into the constitution. They claim 75% national support.

To be put in Constitution. June 6, 2015

To be put in Constitution. June 6, 2015

Laurent Mougeot, CEO SUMA (Laurent is one of us)

• 15 years to get 20% of PST of 2 years ago
• PST share is going down 3.2%

Revenue issues for SUMA/SARM. June 6, 2015

The uncertainty of the old funding model. Note the steep decline. June 6, 2015

The revenue problem. June 6, 2015

Reframing the problem. June 6, 2015

Dialogue. June 6, 2015

Strategy. June 6, 2015

Principles of a new agreement . June 6, 2015

Prioritizing. June 6, 2015

Partnering. June 6, 2015

The results. June 6, 2015

Bene Notes

• Story tell and connect with people
• Talk about building community (reference to tax cuts)
• Campaign has to be carefully structured
• Strategy: what are we talking about?
• Challenge of surveys
• Finding a representative sample
• Who will vote? Voters are changing mind

David, Laurent, Peter