May 4-6: Follow CPAC's complete coverage of the 2023 Liberal National Convention in Ottawa
Liberals meet for their first in-person convention since 2018. They'll debate policy, elect new party officials, and prepare for the next federal campaign.
Policy Debate
Delegates will consider 20 prioritized policy resolutions -- and 16 "fast-track" resolutions that bypassed the pre-convention voting process.
Quebec Liberals want the party to “develop a clear, costed proposal for a return to balanced budgets” for the next election platform.
Other "fast-track" resolutions call for:
- Selling off 30% of all federal land and property for affordable housing;
- Increasing paid vacation in federally-regulated sectors to a four-week minimum;
- Ending “all subsidies to the fossil fuel sector before 2025” and requiring federal public investment funds to "divest from fossil fuels;"
- Creating a “high-profile taskforce” on the green transition and Prairie “alienation;”
- Creating a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform;
- Mandatory voting in federal elections;
- “truth in advertising” legislation administered by an independent body to combat “political disinformation and deliberate misrepresentation”
READ: Liberal Convention Fast Track Resolutions
The 20 prioritized policy resolutions include:
- making nurse practitioners an insured service under the Canada Health Act
- a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income
- more independent and public telecom options for Canadian consumers, including international carriers
- lowering the federal voting age to 17
- "additional public funds to support advertisement-free news and information reporting by Canadian media through an arm’s-length non-partisan mechanism" and the government should explore "options to hold on-line information services accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms and to limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced."
- more whistleblower protection
- a plan to "expeditiously build critical infrastructure" for energy exports to NATO allies
READ: Liberal Convention Policy Resolutions
Here's a look at how the Liberal Party of Canada's support has changed since forming government in 2015:
