Political parties are normally conservative about their internal rules and processes. There is one exception: when a competitor makes an apparently successful big change in how it is led. Then all the others jump to copy it.
The “tyranny of delegated conventions,” was condemned as anti-democratic, smoky backrooms by the Reform Party in the ’80s. Far more democratic to allow “one member, one vote.” They ignored that we live in a representative democracy. There is no one citizen, one vote in any legislature. Nonetheless, every political party had adopted its version of this tomfoolery.
Our mainstream parties are up to far worse than Sear’s article addresses.
LPC, NDP, CPC have all signed on to the ruinous mass immigration agenda of the corporate class.
