During the last leadership campaign, Liberals used the word "renewal" as if it was some fairytale object that, once chosen, would magically transform the world in a Tinkerbell trail of glitter.
There was a Liberal Party Renewal Commission in 2006. It had 32 sub-committees and held public consultations in five cities, but I can't find any sort of report for it. It used to have a web page on liberal.ca but that has disappeared completely.
I found some criticism of the Liberal renewal commission, written at the time it was going on, by Cherniak and Political Nobody. There's a reference in an old article in Macleans. Otherwise, renewal seems to have been taken out back and shot.
So dropping the emotionally-laden term "renewal", there's lots of stuff we need to think about fixing up:
* Organization of the party
* Fundraising network
* Fundraising methods
* Computer systems (web site, databases, tax receipts)
* Constitution re system of electing leaders
* Constitution re other things
* ???
Update: Renewal Obituary
1 comment:
There's a lot of things, but in all honestly if I had to sum 'renewal' up as one thing, I truly have no idea. I mean, what do we need to renew first as a priority to the exclusion of all others?
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