Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, because as Mr. Milliken previously talked about, there has been a transformation of how parties choose their leaders. We used to have a more delegated convention model that was seen as the norm, and now we've graduated toward this more inclusive model where everybody in the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Hopefully, a political party is always going to have principles that it stands behind. The party is about something, probably a collection of things. So, yes, it doesn't make much sense if you have a political party, say, to go with your example, committed to official bilingualis

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I am concerned with the low threshold; 20% seems low. If you are talking about a party with 12 people in it, you have three people who are able to cause a problem for the leader. You might have three people who do it for entirely the right reasons, but you might also have, i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I'm going to go with you in playing devil's advocate for a moment. The trigger point for a leadership review is 20%. That's a relatively small number. If you have a 200-person caucus then it's 40 people. You can do all the math for all the different sizes o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good morning. Thank you very much. The proposed changes to the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act seek to equalize the power of relationships between political party leaders and their caucuses. It is often argued that the current balance of power is weighted t