Thanks for offering to answer questions Brian. May I be the first to take you up on your offer.
You will know from reading Babble that many of us have concerns that the leadership mathematics threaten to minimize Quebec's weight in the process. We also worry that unless this is rectified the party may be badly damaged in Quebec. would you favor a mechanism to guarnatee Quebec a voting weight proportiate to it's population in THIS leadership race. Please begin your answer with either the word "yes" or "no".
I'm not working for any one candidate, and I have no current plans to do so, but I can give you my own answer. Yes, I have for years favoured the equality of ridings provision used by the federal Conservative Party and the Ontario PC Party (and the BC Liberal Party if I recall correctly). No, it can't be put into place for this race, even if the necessary constitutional amendment would pass (two-thirds majority) at a convention, which I'm afraid may be unlikely.
So let me pose a non-confrontational question to Brian and the others (hoping OO does not think it comes from a criminal lawyer):"Do you support a general membership drive concentrated in Quebec and, if so, how would your campaign facilitate it?"
Yes. By the way, nicky, how many new members did you sign up last week? That's not a hostile question even though it comes from a lawyer: if I was working for a leadership candidate, I would once again carry membership forms in my pocket and sign up anyone I could find who wanted to vote for my candidate and was willing to pay for their own membership.