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As you know, one of our key efforts in Ontario is to build bipartisan suppo=
rt for opening the market in early 2002. That largely involves firming up t= he position of the Liberal Party (currently in opposition but in a strong p= osition to win in the next election) in support of moving forward with comp= etition. The Liberal Party has asked me whether Enron (really someone like = Rob Milnthorp or Paul Devries) might consider being the co-chair of a fund = raising event for the party in November 2001. The event would be timed for = the Independent Power Producers Society of Ontario conference (the largest = annual energy conference in Canada) and would be targeted at people in the = Ontario energy sector. Dalton McGuinty, the leader, would speak at the even= t. I didn't dismiss the idea out of hand because it may have merit if : a)= through such an event, we can secure true bipartisan support for moving f= orward. (In other words, if we were to do this, the material would have to= state that Rob or Paul is acting as co-chair in recognition of the biparti= san support for the deregulation initiative and how such bipartisan support= is good for the Province etc); and b) we were satisfied that doing so woul= d not alienate the governing Conservatives. (The Conservatives have always = encouraged us to do what we can to keep the Liberals on side and I think th= ey would be sophisticated enough to appreciate that efforts would involve p= articipation in such fund raising events - particularly if the material use= d did not endorse the Liberals and merely recognized their support for movi= ng forward). Let me know what you think. Aleck (having said all this I sho= uld admit to being a Liberal)
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