Convention Resolutions- a wonky Process

What of the policy resolutions if that is mostly what the national convention was supposed to be about?

The GPC has a little ongoing work to do in this department. In the rush of time and the need to address all the resolutions, we threw out a lot of babies with the bath water. For example, the motions dealing with child care/parental support and strategic voting were both voted down not because of their intent, but for spurious reasons that could have been resolved with a little more discussion.

Quite a few resolutions would have been very restrictive for the leadership had they been passed and Elizabeth May more than once got up to explain how one motion or another would have made her life a lot more difficult. The resolutions varied in format, length, and purpose making it very difficult to deal with them one after another.

Frank de Jong commented that the national party will have to come around more to the provincial way of operating. He conceded that the GPO has four years to fine tune its policy before the next election. This allows for a much smoother adoption process. In any case the national party will have to clean up the format for these resolutions, their delivery and discussion, so that a national conference will a time to deal with these issues a lot more efficiently.

For my part I'm not too concerned as the party has a lot of other good things going for it, growing pains can be dealt with, the people promoting some of these policies have in no way given up and the debate will continue. The future is green...