Final Amendments To LPC Constitution Are Out

They're available here.

These are the amendments for a new leadership selection process:

Electing a Leader using a system of staggered regional voting days

Background: In order to raise the interest of the public and build momentum while selecting a Leader, the Party would use a modified version of the current Leadership Vote procedure that would enable entire regions to cast their vote on different days, and for the first preference results of a region to be published on the day that region holds its vote. This would also provide candidates with a better idea of how they are performing, and whether or not they wish to remain as a candidate in anticipation of the next regional vote.

Proposed amendment:

12.1 Amend Paragraph 54(3)(b) so that it reads as follows:

(b) set a Leadership Vote period to commence within five months, consisting of no more than six specific voting dates no less than 10 days apart during which voting may take place in regions, each consisting of one or more PTAs specified by the Leadership Vote Committee, between a first day and a final day that are no less than 70 days apart;

12.2 Amend Subsection 54(8) so that it reads as follows:

(8) If a Leadership Vote period has been set for a Leadership Vote under Paragraph 54(3)(a) and the National Board of Directors, by resolution passed by three- quarters of its voting members, determines that political circumstances require that the Leadership Vote period be reset to an earlier period, then the National Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the votes cast, reset the Leadership Vote period to an earlier period and may review and alter any arrangements already made for the Leadership Vote.

12.3 Amend Paragraph 55(1)(c) so that it reads as follows:

(c) deliver to the National President, at least 90 days before the first day of the Leadership Vote period, a written nomination (which may be in one or more counterparts) signed by at least 300 members of the Party including at least 100 members of the Party from each of three different provinces or territories;

12.4 Amend Paragraph 56(2)(a) so that it reads as follows:

(a) been a member [supporter if proposed amendment 3 is passed] of the Party for the 41 days immediately preceding the day that the Leadership Vote is held in their PTA;

12.5 Amend Subsection 56(3) so that it reads as follows:

(3) At least 27 days before the first day of the Leadership Vote period, the National Board of Directors must publish on the public website of the Party the registration procedures for the Leadership Vote.

12.6 Add the following as Subsection 56(1) and renumber the remaining subsections accordingly:

(1) Subject to the Leadership Vote period referred to in Paragraph 54(3)(b), the Leadership Vote Committee may decide to hold the Leadership Vote on one date in one region, consisting of one or more PTAs, and on a different date in another region, consisting of another or other PTAs. The number of regions that will vote on different days shall be left to the discretion of the Leadership Vote Committee, but there shall be no more than six regions.

12.7 Add the following as Subparagraph 56(5)(b)(ii) and renumber the remaining subparagraphs accordingly:

(ii) the total number of points allocated to each leadership contestant from all electoral districts in a region, as defined by the Leadership Vote Committee, are added to produce a total for the “regional count”, and the regional count for a region shall be published on the public website of the Party on the day the electoral districts in that region hold their Leadership Vote;

12.8 Add the following as Subparagraph 56(5)(b)(iii) and renumber the remaining subparagraphs accordingly:

(iii) If, at any time following the Leadership Vote held in the first region to hold such a vote, but before the Leadership Vote to be held in the only remaining region, a leadership contestant ceases to be a leadership contestant, then that leadership contestant’s ballots are distributed in each electoral district among the remaining leadership contestants according to the next preferences indicated and counted according to the procedure set out in Subparagraph 56(5)(b)(i) as if they were first preference votes;

12.9 Amend the Subparagraph designated 56(5)(b)(ii) in the existing Constitution (but re-designated as 56(5)(b)(iv) if this Proposed amendment 12 is passed) so that it reads as follows:

(iv) Once all electoral districts in Canada have held their Leadership Vote, the total number of points allocated to each leadership contestant from all electoral districts in Canada are added to produce a total for the “national count”.

12.10 Amend Paragraph 82(1)(b) so that it reads as follows:

(b) at the meeting referred to in Paragraph (a), the National Board of Directors, in consultation with the Caucus and the Council of Presidents and on five months’ notice to the Party, shall set a period for a Leadership Vote between March 1, 2013 and June 30, 2013.