Conservatives Decide to Renominate All Incumbents
The results of the April 30 mail-in ballot having been received and tabulated, the Conservative Party of Canada has decided that all 143 of its incumbents remain as candidates for the forthcoming election, according to this new release from yesterday:
By my count, this makes 144 nominated Conservatives (143 incumbents + Parm Gill in Brampton – Springdale, ON), 7 nominated Bloquistes (all incumbents; at least I'm assuming that the two incumbents whose meetings were scheduled for this past Sunday were renominated, although there aren't any news clippings at Google News yet), and 1 Green Party candidate (Stan Grizzle in Northumberland – Quinte West, ON).
I'm catching up on a bit of a backlog of news items here, owing to some very frustrating phone, cable and internet problems following the big storm in Ottawa the other weekend, so bear with me as I work through them all.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWhich means that the challengers hoping to mount nomination campaigns in Edmonton East, Calgary West and possibly Vegreville – Wainwright, AB will have to wait to fight another day.
May 4, 2008
Conservative Party Announces the Nomination Process for Conservative Incumbent MP’s is Complete
OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada has received the ballot results for the incumbent MP nomination process as set out by the democratically elected National Council of the Conservative Party of Canada. This process was implemented in all of the 143 conservative held ridings across Canada. In every riding, the rules were applied, and the result of the process is that all of incumbent Conservative MP’s will remain as Conservative Party candidates for the next Federal Election and will not be required to face a nomination challenge.
By my count, this makes 144 nominated Conservatives (143 incumbents + Parm Gill in Brampton – Springdale, ON), 7 nominated Bloquistes (all incumbents; at least I'm assuming that the two incumbents whose meetings were scheduled for this past Sunday were renominated, although there aren't any news clippings at Google News yet), and 1 Green Party candidate (Stan Grizzle in Northumberland – Quinte West, ON).
I'm catching up on a bit of a backlog of news items here, owing to some very frustrating phone, cable and internet problems following the big storm in Ottawa the other weekend, so bear with me as I work through them all.
posted by The Pundits' Guide at
9:26 AM
3 Comments:
Incumbency protection in the Reform, oops, Conservative Party?! Somebody is sucking up to caucus pretty heavily. At what cost though? That'll be the wedge issue that totally sinks Harper if, and when he faces the membership again. It could indicate that he has decided not to continue as leader, and so is only worried about cauacus solidarity right now. Maybe he's in fire fighting mode, and is stamping out the flames without thought for the future.
Those are not topics I would be inclined to weigh in on at this blog, BGB.
I can observe, however, that in minority governments, it's the government backbenchers who are most tied to Ottawa when the Commons is in session, and it can be hard for them to fight a nomination challenge back home at the same time. The argument goes that they were all just nominated within the past year and a half, and that should suffice for now.
I do hear Conservative Rick Anderson arguing against the principle on Don Newman right now, on the other hand, on the principle of supporting a more democratic system.
Don't think there is anything wrong with what the conservatives did , they did give party members a chance to have there say but obvivously there was very little interest for nominations in held ridings as the party members in them are generally happy with there mp . so it would of been a waste of time for them to hold nomination meetings in them if there members didn't even want one .
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