Liberals have just had a successful teleconferencing convention that 2,700 members of the party subscribed to, and 2,100 members voted to extend the date a permanent leader is to be chosen.In commenting on the task facing us, Bob Rae had this to say:Li…
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Opposing the #HarperRegime: thinking strategically over the next four years
Sorry, dear friends. This is going to be one of those times when I try to get cerebral, but not too cerebral, and end up sounding like a wanker. Business as usual, in other words.
In the context of last week’s Twitter exchange with @thekeenanwire over…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: At last, a real leader!
Congratulations to Bob Rae for being chosen as Interim Leader by the Caucus, and congratulations to the Caucus for choosing him:
Bob Rae was crowned interim leader of the Liberals on Wednesday and handed the daunting task of breathing new life into a p…
CuriosityCat: Liberal Renewal:Let us not forget this
Renewal starts on the ground, and if we wish to implement a 308-riding strategy, we need to adopt and implement the recommendations of the Change Commission Report April 2009.
One key recommendation we need to focus on is providing assistance to the El…
CuriosityCat: Voters pruned Liberal MPs so as to prune Liberal sense of entitlement
The results of the 2011 election were in many ways a continuation of a trend: a steady rapping of the Liberal knuckles by dissatisfied voters over the course of 3 elections.
Hope versus reality
And yet after each election loss, Liberals repreated the…
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Bob Rae
Having made a decision which is most likely contrary to section 10(2)(e) of the Liberal Party constitution (which gives every member the right to seek any office in the party), the National Board of Directors will most likely have spoiled the…
CuriosityCat: Harper’s Right to Appoint Senators
Lot’s of faux indignation amongst media and bloggers and politicians over Harper’s decistion to appoint three senators, including two who ran for election to the House of Commons, and lost. To judge from the response by some, you would think that Harpe…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Calling all lawyers: Help our Liberal Caucus understand Section 10(2)(e)
Our MPs and Senators in our Caucus will meet to decide which candidate to elect as the Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Unfortunately, the Board of Directors of the Liberal Party has imposed conditions on the candidates seeking election a…
CuriosityCat: Harper’s Canada
Deep Throat II
A sneak preview of how Canada will look after four (or five) years of unfettered majority rule by the Conservative Party, courtesy of Deep Throat II, who was given a copy of Harper’s Five Year Plan in a brown envelope in the Delta Hote…
CuriosityCat: Our 34 MPs have to answer this question on Wednesday BEFORE they decide
And the question goes to the heart of the issue of whether the National Board of Directors has the legal right under the Constitution of the Liberal Party to require that any candidate for Interim Leader commit not to run for election as permanent Lead…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Goodale gets the chop & Senators tossed a crumb
The latest "machination' of the National Board of Directors (the self-appointed Marie Antoinettes of the Liberal Party of Canada) has nixed any hopes Liberal members might have had of Ralph Goodale running for Interim Leader, and given our Sen…
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "Tory Times are Tough Times"
Let us reminisce, shall we, on some of the great contributions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to our democracy and to accountable, responsible government. {Video by cmjhogan} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "Tory Times are Tough Times"
Let us reminisce, shall we, on some of the great contributions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to our democracy and to accountable, responsible government. {Video by cmjhogan} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "Tory Times are Tough Times"
Let us reminisce, shall we, on some of the great contributions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to our democracy and to accountable, responsible government.{Video by cmjhogan}Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Stop the Facebook Creeping, Mr. Harper – With Video
I like this Liberal war room. Quick, sharp, setting the agenda, even having the confidence to use humour. They are smacking the Conservatives around like hockey pucks. This is a great rapid response to a very serious issue of the Conservatives spying “Facebook creeping” on ordinary Canadians, banning students and
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Stop the Facebook Creeping, Mr. Harper – With Video
I like this Liberal war room. Quick, sharp, setting the agenda, even having the confidence to use humour. They are smacking the Conservatives around like hockey pucks. This is a great rapid response to a very serious issue of the Conservatives spying “Facebook creeping” on ordinary Canadians, banning students and
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Stop the Facebook Creeping, Mr. Harper – With Video
I like this Liberal war room. Quick, sharp, setting the agenda, even having the confidence to use humour. They are smacking the Conservatives around like hockey pucks.This is a great rapid response to a very serious issue of the Conservatives spying “F…
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "This campaign trail sure is bumpy."
“This campaign trail sure is bumpy.”So far this week: – banning a veterans advocate from hearing Harper speak- spying on and kicking out students because of their Facebook page (I’m sure it had nothing to do with their Middle Eastern sounding names) – …
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "This campaign trail sure is bumpy."
“This campaign trail sure is bumpy.” So far this week: – banning a veterans advocate from hearing Harper speak – spying on and kicking out students because of their Facebook page (I’m sure it had nothing to do with their Middle Eastern sounding names) – spying on and kicking out
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "This campaign trail sure is bumpy."
“This campaign trail sure is bumpy.” So far this week: – banning a veterans advocate from hearing Harper speak – spying on and kicking out students because of their Facebook page (I’m sure it had nothing to do with their Middle Eastern sounding names) – spying on and kicking out
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