Ok! Shouldn't we also impose retaliatory action until the US stops the flow of illegal firearms into Canada?

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.