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  Canadian federal election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This fear prompted those two parties to form a united Conservative Party of Canada, which was approved by the members of the Canadian Alliance on December 5, 2003 and controversially by the delegates of the Progressive Conservatives on December 6, 2003.
Sponsorship scandal: badly hurt the Liberals in the polls and the theme of widespread corruption was used by all opposition parties, especially the Bloc.
Fiscal imbalance: all major parties except the Liberals claimed that there was a monetary imbalance between Ottawa and the provinces and spoke of plans to reduce it, the Bloc Québécois probably being the strongest denouncer of the situation.
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 Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party was reduced from a majority to a minority government due, in part, to a Chrétien-era scandal in which advertising agencies supporting the Liberal Party received grossly inflated commissions for their services.
When the Liberals formed a majority government after the 1993 election with Chrétien at the helm, party unity was assured by placing Martin, whom Chrétien had defeated for the party leadership in 1990, in the crucial role of Minister of Finance.
In April, 2005 David Kilgour, one of the party's two MPs from Alberta announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent member of the House of Commons due to the damaging allegations of corruption in the Liberal Party's Quebec wing based on testimony in the Gomery Commission inquiry.
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 CONSTITUTION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA (MANITOBA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This Constitution shall govern the affairs of the Party and shall be interpreted in a large and liberal manner having regard to the purposes of the Party as set out in the Preamble, and Article 1.
In the event of a conflict between this Constitution and the Constitution of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Constitution of the Liberal Party of Canada shall prevail.
The appeals committee, shall, after affording the parties an opportunity to be heard, rule on the appeal and communicate the results to the Management Committee, the appellant, and the presiding officer of the organization.
www.liberalpartyofcanada-mb.ca /constitution.htm   (3265 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Conservative Party
But, the PC party under former leader Joe Clark concluded that Manning's dream of a united right appeared to be far closer to Reform's values than it was to the party of Sir John A. Macdonald.
Members of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives overwhelmingly approved the merger in early December 2003 – and the Conservative Party of Canada was born.
By the time the convention was over, the rift had been healed and the party adopted policies that moved it more towards the centre of the political spectrum.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/conservativeparty   (1010 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Ethics legislation could cause problems for Liberal leadership convention
In the case of the Liberals' leadership convention fee, MacKinnon said the entire $995 will count as a donation for most delegates, who pay their own hotel, travel and meal bills on top of the fee.
Liberal proposals to increase the limit to $2,000 or to delay implementation of the act until Jan. 1, 2007, were similarly rejected.
But the Liberal legislation specificied that the new rules would not apply to any leadership contest that was under way by Jan. 1, 2004, when the law went into force.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2006/06/15/1635062-cp.html   (843 words)

  
 ESR | January 20, 2003 | Canada's socialist "third party": The NDP's influence in Canada
The Canadian New Democratic Party (NDP) is now engaged in a federal-level leadership selection process and period of major renewal (after the resignation of federal leader Alexa McDonough in mid-2002) where different options are being considered for the future of the party.
George Parkin Grant, Canada's leading traditionalist philosopher, wrote "...the directors of General Motors and the followers of Professor Marcuse sail down the same river in different boats." Both current-day capitalism and left-liberalism are seen as equally hostile to the notions of true community and true nationhood.
Regardless of today's apparent return of fiscal or economic conservatism in Canada, the NDP has been able to fundamentally transform the social and cultural ideas and policies of the Liberal Party and most of the P.C. Party (and thereby of most of the country) away from social conservatism.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0103/0103ndp.htm   (1298 words)

  
 OpenPolitics.ca : Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006
The convention will come some three years after the 2003 convention, which saw Paul Martin selected after a turbulent few years of conflict between his faction and that of outgoing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien." The date of the convention was eventually set as December 2 and 3, 2006.
Carolyn Bennett, who said she might run as "Dr. Mom", and did in fact enter on April 24, saying that "the best way for our party to regain...trust...is by empowering citizens and changing the culture of politics." She promised to "involve ordinary citizens" in setting priorities, concentrate on health and environment issues.
David Orchard, former leadership contender of the defunct Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who had announced his intention to seek the Liberal leadership during the prior election
openpolitics.ca /Liberal+Party+of+Canada+leadership+convention,+2006   (860 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Canada(Alberta)
Leadership candidate entry fees, set at $50,000, which help to offset the cost of the Convention, are due to the Liberal Party of Canada in two equal payments: one upon registration and another one week prior to the first candidates’ debate.
Posno is the Chief Financial Officer for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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.liberalalberta.ca /events.aspx   (1497 words)

  
 David Orchard's 2003 Leadership Convention Speech
When John Diefenbaker won the leadership of the Party, some said he was "too left wing" to lead the the Progressive Conservative party.
In the party that I lead, all Canadians will be welcome, new Canadians and francophones whose roots go back 400 years, Aboriginal people whose roots date 10,000 years and the entire cultural mosaic of Canada.
If we do this, if we stand against the Liberals and their march down the road leading to the end of our country, then we can and will touch the hearts and minds of Canadians once again, and we will not only save our Party, we will save our country.
davidorchard.com /online/convention-2003/canwillbuildnorthernpower.html   (2247 words)

  
 Arthur: The Progressive Liberal Party of Canada - NDP
This strategy to out liberal the Liberals, is one in which the NDP would seem to be fairly good at.
The less difference there is between the Liberals and the NDP, the less reason people are going to see for casting their vote for the party of democratic socialism.
The party leadership is falling all over itself to recruit young people into the party, to boost its share of the vote amongst 18-25 year olds.
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 Liberal.ca
In 1990, he ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada and finished second at the leadership convention.
Martin was associate finance critic and critic for the environment for the Liberal opposition in the House of Commons.
Liberals were returned to power in the 1993 vote and Mr.
www.liberal.ca /bio_e.aspx?id=24029&type=can   (522 words)

  
 Free Dominion :: View topic - Paul Martin's speech to the Liberal leadership convention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
At its leadership convention on November 14, 2003, the Liberal Party chose Paul Martin as its new leader.
Canada was born of one such moment at Confederation when leaders of genius like Macdonald, Cartier and Brown seized the opportunity - supported in their course by millions of Canadians.
Thank you to the delegates of this great Liberal party as well as those who have put their names forward as candidates during this leadership campaign.
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 Christian Coalition International (Canada) Inc.
This was the period in which the party grew from nothing to become an important electoral and parliamentary force.
On the one side was a liberal party in the classical sense - rationalist, anticlerical but not anti-religious, free-trading, often republican and usually internationalist.
As we have seen in recent months, these are debates where modern liberals (with the exception of Tony Blair) have no answers: they are trapped in their framework of moral neutrality, moral relativism and moral equivalence.
www.ccicinc.org /politicalaffairs/060103.html   (3318 words)

  
 David Akin's On the Hill :: Michael Ignatieff on liberalism and the Canadian Liberal Party
We Liberals stand for a strong federal government-not to feed the Ottawa bureaucracy, not to dominate the regions-but to defend the indivisibility of Canadian citizenship.
Liberals know that there are times-and these try our souls as a people and as a party-when politics means saying a clear NO and a clear YES.
We believe the party itself is an instrument of social justice, for channeling commitments to equality from the grass roots to the Cabinet room.
davidakin.blogware.com /blog/_archives/2005/3/4/396325.html   (3048 words)

  
 ESR | January 27, 2003 | The NDP Leadership Convention 2003: Day One
She spoke with mealy-mouth enthusiasm about leading the party "through a process of renewal," of the NDP steadily rising in the polls ever since the 2000 election, of fighting the evils of globalization.
Then came the resolution guaranteeing gender parity among party officers, so that if the members did not see fit to elect enough women, the women would be appointed to make up the difference.
As for the leadership "forum," it wasn't even really a debate ("somewhat in a debate format" as the CPAC expert described it), more like a big, multi-person press conference with each participant trying to one-up each other on the answers.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0103/0103daythree.htm   (3842 words)

  
 CTV.ca | The Liberal leadership convention: From the floor
Despite the red and white clappers, the falling balloons and a star appearance by U2 frontman Bono, the feeling at the Liberal leadership convention was somewhat anticlimactic.
Before Martin stepped onto the stage, the Liberals popped in a video about their new leader that showed a relaxed Martin sitting in a leather chair, with a bowl of popcorn in front of him, discussing his vision for Canada.
Moore was also sharply critical of the Liberal decision to prorogue government until Jan. 12.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1068871836748_106   (756 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - Politics: Liberal race attracts few new members   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Members signed up by the deadline are eligible to take part in the party's leadership contest, which culminates at a convention in December.
David Pretlove, interim executive director of the party's Ontario wing, said there are a number of reasons for the apparent lack of interest in joining the party and helping to choose its next leader.
But perhaps most significant, Pretlove said Liberals are simply tired, having been pressed into service during the past three years to work on two sets of nomination contests, two elections and now, two leaderships.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Politics/2006/01/25/1411597-cp.html   (721 words)

  
 Free Dominion :: View topic - So I Joined The Liberal Party of Canada Today
After all it is the modern liberal party that is the party of both the corporation and the public service.
The conservatives have flipped to the new liberals, Harper is the grandson of Alexander Mackenzie, and the liberals are those who only concern with the past while trying to socially engineer the future.
The difference between the new conservatives and liberals is do you believe in freedom or do you believe it is the responsibility for the government to tell you how to live, because the common man is too foolish to figure it out for himself.
www.freedominion.ca /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59548   (1493 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party Leadership Race 2003 >> PoliticsWatch.com
While having the experience of leading a party can be considered a plus, many are concerned that having Harper as leader will make the merger of the Alliance and the Conservatives look like a takeover.
The Alliance MP is considered one of the party's strongest performers in Question Period.
Conservative Party of Canada National Leadership Event Friday and Saturday March 19 and 20, 2004, Toronto, schedule “at a glance”
www.politicswatch.com /Conservative_leadership.htm   (802 words)

  
 Government by technicality (Canada'a Liberals now in U.S. 'Rat-style state of denial)
It is, after all, a convention that we obey the law; a law has effect because enough people observe the convention.
But it does so only by doing immense violence to parliamentary convention: that broader, deeper law that says a government must be answerable to the House, that it governs only with the support of the House, and that it is for the House to decide when it has withdrawn that support, not the government.
So, while the answer to your specific question is most likely "no", the current actions of the Liberals most certainly have the potential - through their undermining of centuries of tradition - to do far more long-term damage than any mere short-lived coup.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1400891/posts   (1253 words)

  
 CFP 2005 > PANOPTICON'05
In the spring of 2003 he was a member of the California Secretary of State's Task Force on Touchscreen Voting, whose report eventually led to the requirement for a voter-verified paper trail in California.
Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law, and Technology Prior to his appointment to the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 2000, Ian Kerr held a joint appointment in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.
In October 2003 she became the research coordinator for a four year project on Anonymity, Identity and Authentication funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, an interdisciplinary project led by Dr. Ian Kerr of the University of Ottawa Common Law faculty.
cfp2005.org /Speakers.html   (11865 words)

  
 Nova Scotia Liberal Party - Home
Nova Scotia Liberal Caucus Chair Dave Wilson announced today that Richmond MLA Michel Samson will serve as the party’s interim leader until a leadership convention is held.
Richmond MLA Michel Samson will serve as the party’s interim leader until a leadership convention is held.
The Liberal Caucus first introduced the bill during the spring sitting of the House.
www.liberal.ns.ca   (259 words)

  
 CBC News: Brison joins Liberal leadership race
The Liberal leadership convention is set for December.
The other declared leadership candidates are Toronto MP Joe Volpe, former environment minister Stéphane Dion, former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, Toronto lawyer Martha Hall Findlay and MP Maurizio Bevilacqua, who represents the Ontario city of Vaughan.
Former Liberal finance minister Ralph Goodale, who had also been touted as a possible contender, said Friday that he was not planning to run.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2006/04/23/brison-liberals060423.html   (1082 words)

  
 Left Forum 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He was an on-air commentator (and "Donahue" senior producer) at MSNBC in 2003; a weekly "News Watch" panelist on Fox News Channel from 1997 to 2002; and a co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" in 1996.
In 2003, he was the communications director of the Kucinich for President campaign.
Sabine Leidig is a social-movement-activist and from 2003 National Secretary of ATTAC-Germany, where she is responsible for the organization's development and the coordination of its political projects.
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 News: November 2003 Archives
TORONTO (CP) - Rock star Bono endorsed the Liberal government's efforts to help the third world during a long, rambling speech in support of the next prime minister, Paul Martin.
Bono, of the Irish super group U2, said he agreed to speak because he's a fan of Canada and because Martin has delivered on previous promises to help Africa and other impoverished regions.
That was a reference to the relatively low leadership convention turnout, which amounts to a coronation for Martin.
www.u2station.com /news/archives/2003/11/index.php   (1236 words)

  
 Category:Liberal Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 ANES > Reference Library > The ANES Bibliography - M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Electoral Connection Between Party and Constituency Reconsidered: Evidence from the U.S. House of Representatives, 1972-1994.
Convention Delegates: Reform and the Representation of Party Elites, 1972-1980.
Party Identification as a Cross-National Concept: Comparing the Fit of the Party ID Model in Japan and the U.S. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
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