Sheila Gervais
quixotique.bsky.social
Sheila Gervais
@quixotique.bsky.social
Veteran of the politico wars. Former comms/marketing/GR. Was once LPC National Director. Retired. Sometimes landcape painter. Happy to return to fearlessly tilting at windmills.
Ok! Shouldn't we also impose retaliatory action until the US stops the flow of illegal firearms into Canada?
February 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Of that, ”$817 million relates to the planned expansion of the beverage alcohol marketplace starting on Jan. 1, 2026, and $612 million relates to the decision to accelerate that expansion to begin in 2024,” the independent office said.
#DoNotElectDougFord
January 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario estimates the liberalization tab will jump to $1.4 billion by the end of 2030. It cost taxpayers an additional $612 million so Premier Doug Ford could expand booze sales in time for his early Feb. 27 election, a fiscal watchdog has found.
January 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Sign ups close on Jan 27. So go nuts!

No news yet on candidates signing up folks, but with these timelines, bulk buying, um, registering, won't be possible anyway, so a moot point.

Let's see on the debates. The more the merrier. More exposure and mettle testing/honing.
January 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I can see the public – the Canadians we need to engage – taking a serious interest in such debate and competition.
I do believe that incorporating and instituting some of these concepts will go a long way in restoring the reputation of the Party, and support that of a new leader in the future.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This will be a great contrast to PP as well, but allow the focus of the whole race and particularly the candidates themselves on wooing the fish with words, policies and deportment, not signing them up (organizing).
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It also allows all candidates to fish out of the same pool and focus on competing for ideas and hearts. This should be combined with MANY debates - mandatory debates with disqualification not fining being the penalty.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It will help to avoid some of the issues involved in bulk signing at any rate but specific to non fungible supporters (yes, I meant that) and increases independent scrutiny on the veracity of the Supporter. It gets all candidates away from the sticky wicket of the usual shenanigans or worse.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This concept of agency flies in the face of the concept of party to begin with. At the base of it, you are a supporter of the Party, not just your own candidate. At minimum, to the extent they are allowed, ALL sign ups should be through Liberal.ca and not through candidates’ sites or forms.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Party has a (horrid, to my mind) tradition of allowing people to sign up either through the Party or through candidates, and “hiding” those Supporters signed up by candidates from everyone else until the last week or two of a campaign.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This would be a long way for this party to go, so it’s a long shot, but for once let’s have the courage to do what is best, in this case for BOTH Party and Country. Certainly, for the integrity of a “democratic” process in an important Canadian democratic institution.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
That’s going to tick off a bunch of 14-year-old Young Liberals no doubt, but it will go a long way toward avoiding the potential for foreign actors to manipulate and participate in the process through the back door.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My reading of the current Supporter clauses and by-laws (which of course can be changed) is that interpretations could be made that only Supporters who are eligible to vote in a Federal General Election could vote.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It should also use its by-law ability to adjust just which supporters can vote. Everyone can be a supporter, but you may not be eligible to vote this time.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I say, special times (political circumstances, as the LPC Constitution calls it) call for special actions and the Party should interpret the clause allowing it to alter timelines very broadly, and perhaps beyond the timelines themselves and into the process the timeline refers to.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Some are calling for Caucus and perhaps riding presidents to make the decision and others are calling for effectively a retroactive cut-off period so that only those who are Supporters as of the date of the call of the Vote, or perhaps even the date of the Trigger (Jan 5) can vote.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM