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	Leadership Convention
		A leadership convention is a meeting of party members to select a leader of the party.
		While leadership conventions have compensated to a very substantial degree for the regional imbalances of the parliamentary parties, they have at the same time effectively ended the caucus's monopoly over the selection of a party leader, with a curious result.
		The record suggests that the leadership convention process actually serves as a disincentive to those who might aspire to a lengthy parliamentary career capped by a successful run at their party's leadership.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004588 (1532 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada leadership conventions Information
		The 1948 leadership convention was held in Ottawa on August 7, 1948.
		The 1958 leadership convention was held in Ottawa on January 16, 1958.
		The 2003 leadership convention was held in Toronto, Ontario on November 14, 2003.
	www.bookrags.com /Liberal_Party_of_Canada_leadership_conventions (356 words)

	Young Liberal Movement
		The Young Liberal Movement spread from Victoria to the other states, so that by the federal elections of 1946 the Young Liberal Movement was playing a pivotal role throughout Australia in securing the electoral success of the Liberal Party.
		The 1974 Federal Council of the Party agreed to a proposal for the Young Liberals' senior positions to be elected by a Young Liberal Federal Council, consisting of 6 delegates per Division (and held concurrently with the National Convention at which all Young Liberals were eligible to attend).
		The Young Liberal representation on the senior party's Executive was expanded to two positions, while the Movement was also given a seat on the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Policy.
	www.youngliberal.org /about_the_ylm.php (1522 words)

	Howard Dean opens Liberal Party convention - Boston.com
		Liberal Party delegates from across Canada marched to Montreal on Wednesday to open their convention and choose a new leader, a man they hope can unseat Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and renew their faith in a party that has lost its focus.
		As the Liberals struggle to regain their confidence and drive -- having lost to Harper's Conservatives in January after 12 years in power -- they've turned to a man from south of the border for inspiration.
		Liberal Party delegates will vote this week on whether to choose their leaders through electronic voting instead of delegated conventions where back-room wheeling and dealing rule.
	www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2006/11/29/howard_dean_opens_liberal_party_convention (743 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006
		The party's biennial convention, already scheduled to occur from November 29 to December 1, 2006 in Montreal's Palais des congrès, was followed by the party's leadership convention at the same venue occurring December 2 to December 3, 2006.
		Pierre Trudeau at the 1968 Liberal convention The Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention of 1968 elected Pierre Elliott Trudeau as the new leader of the Liberal Party; he was the unexpected winner in what was one of the most important leadership conventions in party history.
		The convention date is approximately three years after the 2003 convention, which saw Paul Martin selected after years of conflict between his faction of the party and that of outgoing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Party-of-Canada-leadership-convention,-2006 (1213 words)

	Liberals reject one-member, one-vote
		Although most leadership conventions lack the drama of this past one or the Liberal’s 1968 convention, nevertheless there was enough excitement generated to attract the interest of some people who would otherwise ignore the voting were it done electronically by party members.
		Being elected a delegate and attending a leadership convention is a good reward for the party faithful and it allows them to play an active role in the arm-twisting and negotiations that take place behind the scenes.
		Leadership conventions are a good way to highlight not only those who have a realistic chance of being elected but of showcasing those not-yet-ready-for-prime-time players like Gerard Kennedy and Martha Hall Findley who may some day have an opportunity to take the top job.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/weinreb120606.htm (808 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Liberals was reduced from a majority to a minority government due, in part, to the sponsorship scandal, in which advertising agencies supporting the Liberal Party received grossly inflated commissions for their services.
		The Liberal campaign was dogged from start to finish by issues related to the sponsorship scandal, most notably by an RCMP criminal investigation into the leak of the income trust announcement.
		This was followed shortly thereafter by the announcement of Liberal MP Pat O'Brien that he too was departing from the Liberal Caucus because of the Prime Minister's decision to rush same-sex marriage legislation through the House of Commons.
	www.recipeland.com /facts/Liberal_Party_of_Canada (5043 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada
		With numerous Liberal candidates running as Unionists or Liberal-Unionists with the support of provincial Liberal parties in a number of provinces, the Laurier Liberals were reduced to a largely Quebec-based rump.
		The Liberal campaign was dogged from start to finish by the sponsorship scandal, which was brought up by an RCMP criminal investigation into the leak of the income trust announcement.
		After the defeat of the Liberals by the Conservatives of Stephen Harper in the 2006 Canadian federal election, Paul Martin announced in the early hours of January 24, 2006 his intention to resign the leadership of the Liberal Party.
	www.1bx.com /en/Liberal_Party_of_Canada.htm (4620 words)

	Resources at The Leadership Institute: Conservative Training for Tomorrow's Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In these states, delegates are bound to vote at the national convention for the presidential candidate who wins the state's primary for one or more ballots or until "released" by the candidate for whom they were obliged to vote.
		Neither state conventions nor primaries can oblige the delegates to vote a certain way on other issues which may come before the national convention, such as credentials contests, the party platform or proposed changes in the party's national rules.
		While occasionally, particularly in a convention state, a party senior statesman can be elected as an uncommitted delegate, newcomer mugwumps (those who sit on the fence with their mug on one side and their "wump" on the other) go nowhere.
	www.leadershipinstitute.org /resources/resourcesmain.cfm?section=speeches&s=9 (1724 words)

	St. Olaf College \| Northfield, Minnesota, USA
		This tradition in the liberal arts contended that the purpose of liberal education was to produce the moral values and mental disciplines necessary for leadership.
		Liberal artisans (to coin a phrase) assumed that human beings were complex and creative, and capable of many kinds of intelligence.
		Indeed, one of the main practicalities of the liberal arts at institutions like St. Olaf is to show some of the impracticalities of the so-called "real world." Too often in modern societies, the push for practicality is a call to conform to the world the way it is, not the way it ought to be.
	www.stolaf.edu /church/identity/liberalarts.html (8750 words)

	CBC News In Depth: Liberal Party
		Indeed, throughout the convention there were two subjects that routinely elicited the biggest emotional responses whenever they were raised — Kyoto and Kelowna, the latter the short-hand reference to the accord to alleviate native poverty that looks to have been a casualty of the change in government.
		What all this greening of the Liberals did, though, was help create a different convention dynamic to help them forget all the bad things that had befallen the party of late (the Gomery inquiry, the Liberal government's ouster in January) and focus on something hopeful.
		And while conventions are not the best vehicle to judge this, there does seem to be a confidence in the party that wasn't there before, perhaps because members now feel they have a new sword — a green one — to wield against the Harper government.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/liberals/dion.html (1679 words)

	NDP Leadership Conventions
		The 7 candidates who are currently campaigning for leadership of the NDP must file their financial reports with Elections BC by February 20, 2004.
		It is likely a consequence of some unions recognizing that their members want to see the party prove that it has learned from the past and is becoming a credible alternative to the Campbell government.
		In 2000 it was possible for the leadership campaigns to advise the news media of their delegate count after the selection meetings in every constituency.
	www.strategicthoughts.com /record2003/conventions.html (637 words)

	Loudoun Leadership
		Instead of a Firehouse Primary that was held in the 27th and 33rd districts, the leadership of the Loudoun County Republican Committee (LCRC) chose to hold a convention on June 9th to elect candidates to run for the Board of Supervisors, Clerk of the Court, and Sherriff.
		A convention is a closed process as prospective delegates must register in advance, sign a pledge to support the candidates elected by the convention, and spend four to six hours at the convention before voting.
		I have heard from many who feel the LCRC convention was exclusive, and that the process was controlled by a very few with an agenda that may not be in sync with the majority.
	www.leadershipleesburg.org /talk (2772 words)

	Dion defeats Ignatieff to become next Liberal leader
		Liberal leadership non-candidate Bare-Ass Scott Brison is now officially behind Bare-Ass Bob Rae, in order to back him up from the rear.
		In the race for the Leadership of the Federal Liberal party.The winner Stephane Dion was not even on the radar,of most pundits and pollsters.
		At their party convention on Montreal yesterday, the Canadian Liberal Party selected Stéphane Dion, a former federal cabinet minister, over Michael Ignatieff, the former academic at Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, who is known among other things for his biography of the British philosopher, Isaiah Berlin.
	tailrank.com /906888/Dion-defeats-Ignatieff-to-become-next-Liberal-leader (649 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he was first elected to the House of Commons in 1935 and entered the cabinet in 1945.
		Martin was viewed as one of the most left-wing members of the Liberal cabinet, and as Minister of National Health and Welfare from 1946 to 1957 he played an important role in the fight against polio and overseeing the creation of hospital insurance in Canada, and is sometimes recognized as a father of medicare.
		He ran for the Liberal leadership three times, in 1948, in 1958 and 1968, but was defeated at all three Liberal leadership conventions, first by Louis St. Laurent, then by Lester B. Pearson, then by Pierre Trudeau.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Paul_Joseph_James_Martin (487 words)

	ENN: Environmental News Network (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dion won the Liberal leadership Saturday after persuading fellow Liberals that Canada must improve its sorry performance on the environment.
		"I've been watching those conventions since the early 1970s and have never had one in which the environment was so important," said John Bennett of the environmental lobby group the Sierra Club.
		Liberals say this is working in their favor and helps persuade Canadians -- who use far more energy per person than western Europeans -- that they need to do more.
	www.enn.com /today_PF.html?id=11807 (729 words)

	Memorable Conventions
		The convention chose Isaacs to lead the FNM in the general election of 1982.
		This particular convention ushered in the Isaacs Era in the FNM.
		Conventions on both sides of the political divide have played pivotal roles in shaping the political landscape of The Bahamas.
	www.jonesbahamas.com /?c=130&a=6019 (675 words)

	Liberal Dialogue \| Connecting the dots
		The Liberal Party of Canada in BC is pleased to invite you to a breakfast reception with Dominic Leblanc Vice-Chair of the National Policy and Platform Committee
		In my earlier blog I explained that liberalism is about freedom: personal freedom, limited government, equality of right and consent of the governed.
		By not gaining consent of the people at the nomination stage the Liberal Party violated one of the main principles of liberalism: consent of the governed.
	liberaldialogue.civicspaceondemand.org (1477 words)

	Liberal contest starts turning into blog party \| The Agonist
		OTTAWA— The Liberal leadership race, like no other political contest before it, is being waged in the "blogosphere" — the rollicking, unpredictable world of online diarists and self-made political pundits.
		Would-be Liberal leaders are seeking interviews with bloggers; there are blog endorsements, campaign blogs and bloggers who are doing double duty as leadership organizers.
		The Liberals have set a $3 million spending limit for candidates, but it's not likely many of them will even raise that much, so virtual conversations may be more efficient than constant travel in the next several months.
	agonist.org /canuck/20060710/liberal_contest_starts_turning_into_blog_party (1324 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most recent leadership convention was held in 2006.
		The 1968 leadership convention was held in Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario on April 6, 1968.
		The 2006 leadership convention was held at the Palais des congrÃ¨s de MontrÃ©al in Montreal, Quebec on December 2-3 2006.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Liberal_leadership_conventions (407 words)

	Liberal-Leadership-Women, Bgt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal leadership hopefuls are wooing female voters with a plethora of proposals to entice more women into politics, promising everything from quotas and financial incentives to a code of behaviour to curb vulgar conduct in Parliament.
		The proposals are contained in submissions by six of the 11 leadership candidates in response to a questionnaire circulated by the party's renewal commission task force on women's issues.
		Bennett proposes that ridings be rated according to the Liberals' likelihood of victory and that at least half of the most winnable ridings be targeted for women.
	www.recorder.ca /cp/National/060726/n072675A.html (559 words)

	Liberal.ca :: News
		Dion captured the leadership with 54.7 percent of the vote, edging Michael Ignatieff, who garnered 45.3 percent of the vote.
		Dion delivered a passionate address before a packed convention floor, thanking delegates for their support and issuing a rallying cry for the party to continue working together to strengthen the Liberal Party and help him send the Harper government back to opposition.
		Turner both addressed the convention floor to reflect on the Party’s proud history and appeal for unity as Liberals begin the next chapter in the Party’s history.
	www.liberal.ca /story_12330_e.aspx (412 words)

	Liberal delegates refuse to reform the leadership convention formula (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Proponents of the delegated convention, such as the one being held this week to elect the next leader of the Liberal party, likened the event to a family reunion that, among other things, allows delegates to compare notes in person with people from across the land.
		Though delegates refused to reform the leadership convention formula, they approved a major overhaul of the partyâs constitution in a bid to turn it into a leaner, and more competitive machine.
		Their embrace of the new constitution followed warnings from two outgoing members of the national executive that the party was on the financial brink and out-of-touch with the grassroots.
	www.canada.com /topics/news/features/liberalleadership2006/story.html?id=22aa9f41-f627-4e72-ae78-a59baeada602&k=901 (719 words)

	USATODAY.com - The GOP doesn't reflect America (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You may think you're surrounded by a bunch of latte-drinking effete liberals, but the truth is, you're right where you belong, smack in the seat of corporate America and conservative media.
		I've often found that if I go down the list of "liberal" issues with people who say they're Republican, they are quite liberal and not in sync with the Republicans who run the country.
		Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, director of Fahrenheit 9/11, is writing daily from the Republican convention in New York.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/2004-08-30-moore-gopamerica_x.htm (818 words)

	Ignatieff's Duel with History :: Views :: thetyee.ca
		The Liberal leadership contest now underway is unique in that nearly 85 per cent of the delegates eligible to vote at the convention (more than 4,500 of nearly 5,400) already are committed to their first-round choice.
		The remaining 15 per cent of convention voters (about 870) are "ex officio" delegates, eligible to participate by virtue of their party service, and allowed to vote for the candidate of their choice on every ballot.
		Finally, two of the most exciting leadership conventions in recent history were won by candidates who started with less than 20 per cent of the vote on the first ballot.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2006/11/01/Liberals (8405 words)

	Liberals Behaving Badly
		Why Allen, a renegade liberal Republican who has consistently bucked GOP legislators and party principle, had ever been given a position of leadership in the first place is mystifying.
		At the state GOP convention in January, she was the only person to speak up against a resolution in support of the Protect Arizona Now petition, which then won in a landslide.
		One of the 11 liberal Democrats voting against the resolution Wednesday was Sen. Bill Brotherton.
	www.azconservative.org /liberals_behaving_badly.htm (1573 words)

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