NDP Federal Convention Postponed to August 2009
2008Barry Weisleder 2008-06The page as the paper published it (Wayback Machine) →
From the paper's own web edition, recovered from the Internet Archive: the text as the paper put it online, not machine-read. The printed issue of June 2008 is not held.
by Barry Weisleder / June 2008
New Democratic Party officials present at the CLC Convention told this reporter that the party’s federal convention, originally slated for Halifax, Nova Scotia in September 2008, is now postponed to occur in late August 2009 in Halifax.
The rationale for this decision, which violates the party constitution requiring a federal convention every two years (the previous one being held in Quebec City in September 2006), is anticipation of a federal general election. Ironically, given the present minority government situation in Parliament, a federal election is equally possible just before or after the summer of 2009. Have I just forecast another undemocratic convention postponement?