Peter Mackay: Controversial Changes

Workshop Sessions Dept: About 2,200 grassroots party members, officials and elected representatives are attending the two-day convention, with a raft of resolutions being screened in private workshop sessions all day, according to The Star. However, MP Scott Reid has collected enough signatures on a petition supporting the change that the debate will nevertheless go to the full floor Saturday and oTTAWA Conservative Party members soundly defeated a proposal for a youth wing, but controversial changes to how the party leader is elected will be debated further at the party s national policy convention. At one closed session, contentious changes that would give ridings with more members a bigger say in the election of the party leader were roundly defeated, said Peter MacKay, the former leader of the Progressive Conservative party who said equal ridings were key to the original compromise that allowed the Conservatives to merge. As reported in the news.
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