ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform</title> <link href="/css/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="/css/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" /> <script language="JavaScript" src="/scripts/member-pulldown.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <form method="post" action="/en-CA/Whats-New/News/Fifteen%20Assembly%20members%20selec.html" id="pulldown"> <input type="hidden" name="__EVENTTARGET" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="__EVENTARGUMENT" value="" /> <div style="display:none"><input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" value="dDwtMTQ2NDkwNzk2NDt0PDtsPGk8MT47PjtsPHQ8O2w8aTwxPjtpPDU+O2k8OT47PjtsPHQ8cDxwPGw8Q2FjaGVNaW51dGVzO0NvbWJpbmVXaXRoRGVmYXVsdEN1bHR1cmU7Q2hlY2tQZXJtaXNzaW9uc0ZvclVzZXJJRDs+O2w8aTwwPjtvPGY+O2k8MD47Pj47Pjs7Pjt0PHA8cDxsPElzQXV0aG9yaXplZDs+O2w8bzx0Pjs+Pjs+Ozs+O3Q8cDxwPGw8SXNBdXRob3JpemVkOz47bDxvPHQ+Oz4+Oz47Oz47Pj47Pj47PsY4yeJNMQpwTU6AitE7tOQa7fZf" /></div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) { var theform = document.getElementById ('pulldown'); theform.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget.split("$").join(":"); theform.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument; theform.submit(); } // --> </script> <a class="skip" href="#content">skip to content</a> <div id="container"> <div id="utility-nav"> <span><a href="/search.html">Site Search</a> | <!-- <a href="#">Feedback</a>|--><a href="/en-CA/Contact.html">Contact Us</a> | <a href="/fr-CA/home page.html">Fran&ccedil;ais</a></span></div> <div id="logo"><h1><a href="/en-CA/home page.html">Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform</a></h1></div> <hr /> <div id="header"> <script src="/scripts/images.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/scripts/assembly-quotes.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/scripts/show-quote.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div id="nav-bar"> <div id="main-nav"> <span><a href="/en-CA/About.html">About the<br /> Assembly</a></span> <span><a href="/en-CA/Whats-new.html">What's<br /> New</a></span> <span><a href="/en-CA/get-involved.html">Get<br /> Involved</a></span> <span><a href="/en-CA/The Classroom.html">The<br /> Classroom</a></span> <span><a href="/en-CA/Deliberation Room.html">Deliberation<br /> Room</a></span> <span><a href="/en-CA/Media.html">Media<br /> Room</a></span> </div> <!-- end div id="main-nav" --> </div> <!-- end div id="nav-bar" --> <hr /> <div id="content-wrapper"> <a name="content"></a><div id="content"> <div id="breadcrumb"> <span id="Cmseditableregion1"><p><a href="/en-CA/home page.html">Home</a> / <a href="/en-CA/whats-new.html">What's New</a> / News Archive</p></span> </div> <h1>News Archive</h1> <h3>Fifteen Assembly members selected this weekend  twenty-three to go </h3> <p>6/12/2006</p><!-- <p>Fifteen more members of the Assembly were selected at meetings in Kingston, Kitchener, Owen Sound and Peterborough this weekend.</p>--> <p><p>Fifteen more members of the Assembly were selected at meetings in Kingston, Kitchener, Owen Sound and Peterborough this weekend. </p> <p>&ldquo;I feel passionate about my country, my province and my community. I feel like I can contribute to this process,&rdquo; said Ron Vankoughnett, representing the riding of Kitchener-Waterloo, who was randomly selected by Elections Ontario to join the historic Citizens&rsquo; Assembly on Electoral Reform. </p> <p>In total fifteen Assembly members were selected this weekend including: Elsayed Abdelaal (Guelph-Wellington), Jerrold Labrecque (Cambridge), Bill Ritz (Waterloo-Wellington), Marcia Soeda (Kitchener Centre), Ron Vankoughnett (Kitchener-Waterloo), Fran Byers (Leeds-Grenville), Dianne Carey (Hastings-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington), Buddhadeb Chakrabarty (Kingston and Islands), Cornelio Reyes Jr. (Prince Edward-Hastings), Wendy Lawrence (Northumberland), Marie McLaren (Haliburton-Victoria-Brock), Ann Thomas (Peterborough), Arita Droog (Bruce Grey-Owen Sound), Matthew L.O. Certosimo (Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey) and Scott Allen (Huron-Bruce). </p> <p>There are nine selection meetings remaining&hellip;</p></p> <p> <a href="/en-CA/whats-new/news.html">» Back to news archive</a> <br /> </div> <!-- end div id="content" --> <hr /> <div id="left-column"> <div id="section-nav"> <span id="Cmseditableregion3"><ul> <li><a class="section-name" href="/en-CA/whats-new.html">What's New</a></li> <li><a class="level2" href="/en-CA/whats-new/news.html">News Archive</a></li> <li><a class="level2" href="/en-CA/Whats-New/The%20Ballot.html">The Ballot</a> </li> </ul></span> </div> </div> <!-- end div id="left-column" --> <hr /> <div id="footer"> <p class="footer-nav"> <a href="/en-CA/home page.html">Home</a> | <a href="/en-CA/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> | <a href="/en-CA/privacy policy.html">Privacy Policy</a></p> <p>&copy; 2006/2007 Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform</p> </div> </div> <!-- end div id="content-wrapper --> </div> <!-- end div id="container"--> </form> </body> </html>