Membership Numbers: Canadian Alliance

Atlantic Canada Dept: Some MPs and party members are proposing to move beyond the leadership selection process agreed to in the 2003 deal that brought the PCs and the Canadian Alliance together: an arrangement that gave all ridings equal clout regardless of membership numbers, according to Globe And Mail. Proponents for change want a system for electing future leaders that rewards riding associations with higher numbers of active members by giving them more weight in picking the next party chief. Backers will be buttonholing delegates at the convention, which runs through Saturday and the battle is over how to pick a leader – not a burning question right now, but one that resurfaces regularly because of lingering dissatisfaction with rules established at the party’s inception. The 7½-year-old agreement put populous Western Canadian riding associations – full of former Canadian Alliance supporters – on the same footing as those in Quebec or Atlantic Canada where membership numbers might be smaller. As reported in the news.
@t globe and mail, leadership selection