It will be expensive, time consuming and the election and policy results are likely predictable now.
So why not do everything by web and save cost?
Because the Convention will be much more than the speeches, votes and media events. A major, perhaps the major, part of the Convention will be the person to person meetings and informal gathering outside the convention floor.
The famous 'smokey back rooms' are said to be a bad thing but they are not. It is those quiet discussions between Party faithful that discover new candidates and build victory for the next election.
I am not delighted to spend a few thousand dollars to go to Vancouver for a very long weekend -- but I know it's worth every penny and every second.
James Morton
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Toronto, Ontario
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That's easy for people to say who can afford it, James.
(and that's one reason why I'm a big supporter of weighted One-Member-One -Vote; it will give all members their own voice and vote on leadership candidates, and they wont be required to shell out big bucks to travel half way across the country to do so.)
One vote per member, democracy now.
Well said Jim.
holding the convention in Vancouver seems an odd choice to me.
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