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
Monday, September 09, 2002
The management committee of the Liberal Party of Canada's executive has decided that a convention to pick the successor to Jean Chrétien should happen in late fall 2003. This means that the successor will be chosen at least two months before Chrétien's announced retirement in Fevruary 2004.
"The management committee just made a unanimous resolution that the leadership convention be held, at a city still to be determined, between November 4 and December 6, 2003," national executive president Stephen LeDrew said outside an Ottawa hotel meeting room.
Liberal caucus chair Stan Keyes, a well-known loyalist of likely leadership successor Paul Martin, has indicated that the Liberal caucus is satisfied with the convention date, and that he will respect the Prime Minister's desire to stay on until early 2004.
Why the early convention date? There were concerns about the feasability (or the desirability) of holding a convention in Ottawa in January or February. The weather's not pleasant to many people. Many organizers also indiacted that they did not want to campaign over the Christmas holiday season, and would prefer the campaign be over before then. Also, Paul Martin suppoerters, who had originally wanted an early convention and leadership handover. Now, they don't need to campaign for 18 months -- more like 14 at most. Finally, it will allow hte leader-elect to install his or her people in the Liberal machine sooner, allowing them to work as part of the leadership for a longer time before a likely election in late fall 2004.
Coverage from:
The Toronto Star
CTV
CBC
Globe and Mail
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