On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Friday, August 30, 2002
MPs bid to pick new PM faster
Impatient MPs and some Liberal organizers want a party leadership convention months earlier than envisioned by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
No great surprise here. It seems that at least the Martinites are now pushing for a convention in October 2003 or so. Originally, many of them indicated that they wanted to go ahead with a leadership review in February, but it seems that they've cooled off.
There is some logic to an October 2003 convention. The new leader would have a year to install himself (or herself) comfortably in the party's leadersship, to put his impression on the party, and introduce a budget. New leaders who have less than a year between their selection and a general elections have not historially fared well, be they in government or opposition at the time of their taking over of the party. Even so, this date would allow the Prime Minister to leave after ten years as Prime Minister, and Paul Martin would still be over 65 years old if he were to win.
Another story on the same subject from the Globe and Mail's Jane Taber.
Liberal Party president Stephen LeDrew said yesterday he is working hard to find an accommodation between Liberals who favour a convention in the fall of 2003 and those who prefer to wait until just before Chrétien plans to step down.
Expect to hear more on or just after September 7th after the party executive next meets.
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