Some years ago - I was enquiring about the membership rules of the Liberal Party. The reason was innocent enough - I wanted to know what would happen to party members of the provincial Liberal party as many of them were in the middle of condemning the federal party under Paul Martin during the equalization war.
Anyway in that party I was told - you can be a member of the provincial and federal Liberal party at the same time - or you can be a member of the provincial division only - HOWEVER - you are not permitted to be a member of any other political party - Provincial or Federal.
This I was told as the parties jointly raise cash - share election and policy stuff - back and forth.
Means you could not have a federally Conservative Cabana in a provincially Liberal party.
ARTICLE I - MEMBERSHIP
1. The Party shall be open to all who desire to support the Party and who wish to be known as Liberals. To this end, all individuals who are resident of the Province and are Canadian Citizens, aged fourteen (14) years of age or older shall be eligible for membership in the Party without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or mental or physical disability, provided that they are not members of any other political party.
You see it appears that most all rules of the libs are entwined fed-prov - prov-fed example below:
2. (a) There shall be an Executive Committee consisting of the President, Vice President
(Provincial), Vice President (Federal) Treasurer, Secretary, and Party Leader; all
of whom, except the Party Leader, shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting
of the Party in years which end in even numbers. The Provincial Regional
Directors shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the Party in years
which end in uneven numbers.
So will Brad - quit the federal conservative party in order to join the federally managed controlled - undemocratic provincial liberal party?
Yes Newfoundland and Labrador if the federal libs do anything anti-Newfoundland and Labrador (common) you can't oppose that and remain a member of the provincial party....so they say.
2 comments:
Informative and interesting Sue.
Thanks for that.
So many rules . I guess the only good thing to be said about this set of rules for the Liberals , is that you know where you stand .
Rules are a device used to impose control over the individual by the collective .
Rules tend to be either restrictive or inclusive . They usually have limited benefits for the ordinary person .
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