Like Ken, I'm not aware of any Topp partisans or proxies participating on this thread (apart from Brian himself). However (also like Ken) I am one of a hanful of babblers who has been prepared to call posters on unfair accusations.
As to Nicky's initial question, it matters not if Brian or anyone else thinks there should be a special weighting of Quebec votes. The rules are set and the rule is one member one vote. The ship has sailed.
While I think there is great merit to having the party support a special membership development initiative in Quebec, perhaps Nicky and others might like to recall that there will be something like nine candidate teams and every one of them will be investing resources on selling memberships in Quebec. First, Quebec is the largest and least tapped pool of potential NDP members. Second (and I don't know wy some babblers seem incapable of grasping this simple reality)
DELEGATES IN THE REST OF CANADA
WILL NOT SUPPORT A CANDIDATE
WHO CANNOT DEMONSTRATE
SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT IN QUEBEC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quebec constitutes about four percent of party membership
ABOUT A MONTH AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have no doubt at all that statistic is already out of date. It will certainly NOT be the total membership figure four or five months from now.
If nine candidate teams, several with significant Quebec organizations, sell an average of 2,000 Quebec members each, that's a Quebec membership of 20,000 (9 x 2,000 = 18,000 + 2,000 existing members = 20,000 **** NOT including any who sign up at their own initiative or based on MPs organizing).
If 59 MPs use the leadership race to sell 200 memberships on top of what the campaigns do, thats an additional 12,000 members.
This destructive meme is just a small handful of gullible babblers who fail to grasp that the corporate media are not our friends.