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	Leadership convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader.
		Unlike in the United States, where political conventions are held every four years to choose the party's presidential nominee, in Canada the leader of a party generally remains that party's de facto candidate for Prime Minister until such time as he or she dies, resigns or is dismissed by the party.
		Prior to that the leader of the party was chosen by the party's parliamentary caucus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leadership_convention (824 words)

	British Columbia Liberal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Columbia Liberal Party (often referred to as the BC Liberals) is the current governing political party in British Columbia, Canada.
		The party is the former provincial wing of the Liberal Party of Canada, composed of centrists and neoliberals.
		For the provincial liberals, the intent of this separation was to reduce the influence on the provincial Liberals by former Socreds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_Liberal_Party (2008 words)

	New Democratic Party - Gurupedia
		The importance of labour to the party is still reflected in the party's leadership elections as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
		Under the leadership of Audrey McLaughlin -- the first woman to be leader of a national political party in Parliament -- and Alexa McDonough, the party underwent a decline.
		Unlike other federal parties, the NDP is integrated with its provincial and territorial party, such that a member of the federal party is a member of the provincial or territorial party where he or she resides.
	www.gurupedia.com /n/nd/ndp.htm (1068 words)

	Liberal.ca
		They must be a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, presently holding a current and valid membership and be in good standing with the Party.
		The Constitution of the Liberal Party of Canada requires that Biennial Conventions be held.
		The official campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada begins with the Campaign "Call" on April 7, 2006, the date when rules are finalized and candidates may officially register, as set by the National Executive.
	www.liberal.ca /news_e.aspx?site=news&id=11509 (949 words)

	Grassroots Politicians: Party Activists in British Columbia. by David Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The reason offered for the failure of the province's parties to converge towards the political centre is that they are constrained by the attitudes of their activists.
		British Columbia's Social Credit Party is portrayed as a party of social and economic elites who exhibit homogeneity on some issues, divisions on many others, and possess clear linkages to the federal Progressive Conservative Party.
		However, provincial Liberalism persisted for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the connection to the federal party.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/744/politicians12.html (879 words)

	Politics of Canada
		Legislative power rests with the party that won the majority of seats in the House of Commons which is elected from a current 301 constituencies (or electoral districts) for a period not to exceed 5 years.
		Two parties won a combined 59% of the popular vote, but the separatist Parti Québécois won enough strategic electoral districts to take power with 41% of the popular vote, which is very common with first-past-the-post voting methods.
		In the 1993 national election, the conservative vote was divided between two parties that resulted in the Bloc Québécois being elected as the official opposition.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Canada.html (3760 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: The Canadian Alliance Leadership Race
		The dominant federal political parties in Canada are the Liberal Party (which is currently in power), the Canadian Alliance Party (which is the Official Opposition party), the Progressive Conservative Party, the Bloc Quebecois, and the New Democratic Party.
		Reynolds was elected to the Legislative Assembly for British in 1983.
		Delegates to the national convention are elected in proportion to the membership vote received by each leadership candidate (for example, if Paul Martin receives 40% of the direct vote by party members, then 40% of the delegates to the national convention will be delegates who have declared their support for Mr.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_10/printable.html (2251 words)

	Frontline 6 - The Canadian Left
		Even though the party has a capitalist programme and a middle class leadership, for socialists this financial relationship is an important consideration in determining the working-class character of the party.
		The leadership had begun a "renewal process" in February, 2001, in an attempt to deal with the party's internal crisis and to show they were indeed responsive to criticisms of their failures.
		In a debate that was factionalised by the leadership of the party – who pointed to their own stand on Afghanistan and their trip to Quebec City as evidence that they were not part of "the mushy middle" – the NPI resolution calling for a new party was defeated, gaining 37% of the votes.
	www.redflag.org.uk /frontline/six/06canada.html (3067 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - New Democratic party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY [New Democratic party] (NDP), Canadian political party, founded in 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) reorganized itself and entered into close ties with Canadian labor unions, especially the Canadian Labor Congress (CLC).
		The elections of 1993, 1997, and 2000 saw its representation in Ottawa severely reduced, but 2004 and 2006 reversed that trend (though the NDP remained the smallest party in parliament).
		The lives of the Party: the Democratic Party converging on Chicago isn't the one FDR, JFK and LBJ built - and some say Bill Clinton is betraying the party's liberal soul.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NewD1emoc.asp (357 words)

	The Phantom Observer
		The self-described Beast of British Columbia was eligible for the hearing because he has served 25 years of his life sentence for the killings, which shocked Canada in the 1980s.
		Party foot soldiers, some of whom predicted last year that they could not win a seat in Quebec, are delighted with their prospects in that province.
		For a thoroughgoing grassroots party, this now has to mean that a robust constituency association be able to conduct a fair and open nomination of its candidate according to established rules and guidelines without having the process set aside or overruled by ‘head office’ to favour a parachuted candidate or impose a hand-picked person.
	phantomobserver.com (4631 words)

	Home Page
		Liberal Opposition Leader Gerry Reid is taking exception to a Conference Board of Canada report that skirts this province and recommends Halifax be the "hub city" for Atlantic Canada with access to government economic development funding.
		Danny Dumeresque, President of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, says he is pleased that Gerry Reid was ratified as leader by the party membership at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Gander this past weekend.
		The membership of the Liberal Party strongly endorsed Gerry Reid’s leadership and the party is now ready to implement an organizational and fundraising plan that will be the backbone for the party heading into the next provincial election.
	www.liberal.nf.net (678 words)

	British Columbia Teachers’ Strike
		In response, the BC Supreme Court froze the assets of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and levied a $500 million fine against the union, the largest civil contempt penalty in provincial history.
		British Columbia is the only province in Canada in which education has been so designated.
		Ready almost immediately declared an impasse, declaring that the parties were “just too far apart to come to a facilitated agreement or any kind of negotiated agreement.” Ready made his announcement after the BCTF publicly released their own proposals to end the dispute.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Jan2006/ross0106.html (2783 words)

	Trafford Publishing: Electronic Politics
		Voting by telephone was first introduced in Canada in 1992 when it was employed by the Liberal Party in Nova Scotia for the election of their leader.
		It was used for leadership conventions or plebiscites by the B.C. Liberal Party in 1993, the National Party in 1994, the Alberta Liberals in 1994, and the Saskatchewan Progressive Conservatives in 1994.
		It was also used the Reform Party for a series of "Town Halls" in 1994 and 1995, and for a referendum on the Young Offenders Act in North Vancouver (1994).
	www.trafford.com /robots/96-0008.html (1162 words)

	P.D.O. Print Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But, he said, the new Liberal leader is unlikely to want to force the government's defeat until he or she has had a chance to get comfortable in the job.
		Charest is the spiritual son of Brian Mulroney and the political heir of the Liberal Party of Quebec.
		Dozens of liberals across Canada have said to me that the most important criteria for the new leader will be a demonstrated willingness to listen to, and to act on, the values of the history and grassroots of our great party.
	dynamitearchives.blogspot.com (8906 words)

	Amazon.com: Quasi-Democracy?: Parties and Leadership Selection in Alberta: Books: David Stewart,Keith Archer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Many Canadian parties are shifting their process for selecting leaders from delegate conventions to methods that -- at least in theory -- allow all members to vote for the leader.
		In the leadership selections of the 1990s, Alberta's governing Conservatives used a primary balloting system, the opposition Liberal Party allowed members to vote by phone, and the NDP held a traditional leadership convention.
		David Stewart and Keith Archer examine political parties and leadership selection in Alberta using mail-back surveys administered to voters who participated in the Conservative, Liberal, and NDP leadership conventions elections of the 1990s.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0774807903?v=glance (508 words)

	True Patriot - Canadian Conservative Club : Canada's Conservative Choice Online http://www.geocities.com/CanConCluTruPat
		Not surprisingly, with this kind of discouragement from the party leadership, not many resolutions originating with the grassroots have ever got to be official party policy and so is the plight of the Liberal Party member who is forced to toe party line no matter how much it hurts their honest conscience.
		Liberalism cannot successfully be promoted on a serious internet forum because the usual liberal debating ploys don’t work in the unforgiving environment of a public text debate.
		Under Manning's leadership, in just ten short years, the Reform Party grew from a western-based protest party to become the pan-Canadian Official Opposition in Parliament, an unprecedented political move yet to be replicated electorally.
	www.geocities.com /CanConCluTruPat (6895 words)

	CBC News: Harper castigates Liberals as party rift opens
		Harper dismissed the factions and internal rifts that have plagued the Conservatives as relics of the past, insisting that the party is fit and ready to govern.
		Reid, an Ontario MP, defended the proposed change, arguing that the purpose of the convention was to examine the party's original policies.
		Party members were voting Friday on a leadership review, which Harper is expected to fly through.
	www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/03/18/conservative-050318.html (1211 words)

	Cherniak on Politics: Open up membership rules
		The Liberal Party might be my party, but it used to be the party of others and in the future it will be the party of many more.
		How is the liberal party going to achieve grassroots renewal when the entrenched party establishment is actively trying to keep new members OUT OF THE PARTY.
		I was signed up to support a candidate for provincial young Liberal president and to support his choice in the party's leadership race provincially.
	jasoncherniak.blogspot.com /2006/03/open-up-membership-rules.html (4323 words)

	Andrew Spicer's Weblog - STV in BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		British Columbia may be about to switch to a new voting system for its provincial legislature.
		MMP would have allowed people to vote for candidates and for parties, and the legislature would have been made up of a mix of the winning candidates and some representatives chosen based on the votes for parties.
		I'm not sure what effect this will have in BC, but federally, I imagine it would mean more votes for a variety of parties on the first ranking, but ultimately more seats won by centrist candidates, which would have the unfortunate effect of entrenching the Liberal Party even more solidly in control of Ottawa.
	www.andrewspicer.com /article468.html (392 words)

	Salt Spring News :: Daily News Of and For Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		British Columbia was estimated to need 35,000 workers in the next several years to replace retiring workers and keep up with demand, the association said.
		British Columbia's 2005-06 public accounts, released on Monday, July 17, show that the province's "accumulated deficit" has fallen to just $124 million.
		British and American armies use similar scenarios to train their recruits and they have been able to reduce casualties as a result, said Fisekci.
	www.saltspringnews.com (12089 words)

	Glossary: === C === (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When the family attends congregation meetings, the children attend all the same events, including at assemblies and conventions, that the adults do, and normally sit with their parents.
		The Slack sisters, Polly and Esther, are throwing a Tupperware party this weekend and have invited sisters from three states.
		To one who views himself as liberal (most do), the term conservative implies one who is overly cautious, needlessly fearful, and resistant to change, but liberal implies generosity, boldness, openness, and flexibility.
	ashelf.com /wordlists/e/eec/www/=C.html (5802 words)

	Andrew Sullivan \| The Daily Dish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is as central to that vision as peace is to the classical liberal vision...
		The British House of Commons is holding a hearing.
		The Human Rights Campaign's leadership refused to speak of the matter for years, and only included the m-word in their literature in the last few years.
	time.blogs.com /daily_dish (5853 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
		In 2004, Liberal Bonnie Brown defeated Conservative Rick Byers by 9,205 votes to win a fourth term.
		From 1979 to 1983, the MP for Halton was Conservative Otto Jelinek, who was minister of state for fitness and amateur sport, minister of state for multiculturalism and minister of supply and services.
		Party: Extensive involvement in municipal, provincial and federal campaigns.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/167 (768 words)

	The Corner on National Review Online
		First, the states who are high contracting parties must adhere to the convention's terms insofar as their dealings with each other go.
		As it neither accepts nor applies the 4th Geneva Convention, it is ineligible by the very terms of that convention.
		Visiting Mom and Dad at Christmas, I saw their letter from a dear liberal cousin of mine lamenting that the re-election of Bush is a sign of the astounding low "educational level" of voters.
	www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/05_01_09_corner-archive.asp (12330 words)

	The Corner on National Review Online
		Given the amount of partying, drinking, chasing women, and such that he and his fellow Marines were doing during their free time, I guess that means that the lives of slaves on southern plantations must have been a lot of fun -- hard work for the master during the day, partying all night.
		The supposed "consequence" of the Madrid attack, of course, was a victory by the opposition party.
		Reading the papers, watching British news, talking to folks all gave me the sense that the Brits are weary of being special and making people angry and want to be a normal country where the rules of the vast continental college campus across the channel apply.
	www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/04_05_23_corner-archive.asp (12423 words)

	Stephen Harper and the Bilderbergers Secret Meeting - Forums powered by Reason and Principle
		BinkyClowner Writes:Conservative Party of Canada leader, Stephen Harper, is on the left of the picture meeting with members of the Zionist Bilderbergers.
		We still have the good old paper ballot and witnessed count (although obviously not at leadership conventions) but they are working hard to change that.
		In fact, at the time, the electoral officers (all party affiliated incidently) put up a large flboard on which they were going to post results.
	www.libertyforum.org /showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=294171742 (2528 words)

	Nodice · Canada Federal Election 2006 · Parties and Leaders
		Political Parties who lost their eligibility to become registered
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		It does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external sites.
	www.nodice.ca /elections/canada/parties.php (47 words)

	The Sideshow August 2005 Archive
		The hatred that he arouses in the old opposition parties, which have seen their membership and influence dwindle, lies more in ideology and racial antipathy than in material loss.
		Susie Bright on censorship, dying cities, and other things: In the meantime, the country's going to hell in a handbasket and the "opposition party" is trying to score points carping about the danger of pornography.
		And then there's David Ignatius, who writes Sheehan off as a "shrill" voice to whom the Democratic Party has ceded the entire political terrain, instead of admitting that he and his colleagues have ignored the Democratic contributions to that terrain all along.
	sideshow.me.uk /saug05.htm (12347 words)

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