P-203 Modify HRC Jurisdiction PROPOSED BY VICTORIA AND KELOWNA – LAKE COUNTRY
iii) The Conservative Party supports legislation to remove authority from the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Tribunal to regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints related to Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
The vote concluded at the plenary and passed. Nicholson voted “yes”.
Scott Reid is the Conservative MP from Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington. Reid is the proponent of the following Conservative constitutional amendment at the policy convention in Winnipeg, MB.
RESOLUTION C-107 (Delegates based on number of EDA members)
Delete the words that are struck through and add the words that are underlined in
Article 7.5 as follows:
7.5 The following shall be entitled to vote as delegates to a national convention:
7.5.1 one delegate elected from each electoral district association for every ten (10)
members of that association (always rounding the number of delegates upward),
to a maximum of ten delegates per association, an equal number not exceeding
10 from each electoral district associationeach of whom shall reside in the
electoral district or who shall have been elected as a director of the electoral
district association at the most recent annual general meeting, in such number
and , elected in such manner as determined by National Council which shall
include a requirement that where ten (10) delegates are to be elected at least one
such delegate reflect youth participation, and as an additional delegate the president of the electoral district association as of a date set by National
Council;
I interviewed NDP Comms guy Brad Lavigne at the 2006 Liberal leadership convention so when I spotted him at the 2008 CPC Conservative convention I wanted to get his take.