Leadnow

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Leadnow
Formation2010
TypeNon-profit
PurposeHealthy environment, just society, fair economy, open democracy
Membership500,000
Website www.leadnow.ca

Leadnow (French: A L'action) is a Canadian non-profit, independent citizens' advocacy organization founded in 2010. [1] It campaigns for a just, sustainable, and equitable Canada, built and defended through the democratic power of an engaged public. [2] [3]

The organization has been a vocal opponent to the Trans Mountain Pipeline. [4] [5]

"Vote Together" was Leadnow's 2015 election campaign, "the best-organized strategic voting project [the] election, with a footprint in dozens of ridings", according to The Globe and Mail. [6] According to the BBC, the campaign utilized flash mob tactics to engage unregistered voters with "vote mobs". [7] Amara Possian, campaign manager for Vote Together, told The New York Times in 2015 that "the long-term objective of Vote Together is to make strategic voting obsolete by replacing Canada's winner-take-all system". [8] [9]

After the 2015 election, Leadnow supporters campaigned to change the voting system from first-past-the-post to some form of proportional representation. [10] They were unsuccessful when the Liberal government abandoned its promise "to ensure that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system" [11] in February 2017. [12]

References

  1. ↑ "About LeadNow". LeadNow. 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Our Vision". Leadnow.ca (new site demo). Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Leadnow: people powered change". Leadnow.ca. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ The Canadian Press (June 4, 2018). "Rallies planned across Canada to protest Kinder Morgan buyout". News 1130 . Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Ljunggren, David; Gordon, Julie (April 11, 2018). "Justin Trudeau to pressure B.C. government to accept Trans Mountain pipeline". Global News . Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ "The 'big experiment' of voting strategically this election" . Retrieved January 20, 2020.
  7. ↑ Griffiths, Sian (April 21, 2011). "'Vote mobs' hope to engage Canadian youth". BBC News.
  8. ↑ Austen, Ian (October 15, 2015). "Canadian Campaign Blurs Party Lines to Thwart Conservatives". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  9. ↑ Amara Possian, Leadnow's elections... - CTV News Channel , retrieved January 17, 2020
  10. ↑ Northam, Katelynn (2016). "Submission to the Special Committee on Electoral Reform" (PDF). OurCommons.
  11. ↑ Wherry, Aaron (February 1, 2017). "Opposition accuses Trudeau of 'betrayal' as Liberals abandon promise of electoral reform". CBC.
  12. ↑ "Trudeau breaks voting system pledge". BBC News. February 1, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2020.


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