Un "Dead Duck" peut-il vraiment se réincarner? spéciallement quand il a atteint un état odoriférant où seul les groupes d'intérêt (i.e. vautours) vont s'en approcher, où le renouvellement ne se fait plus depuis longtemps, où le fardeau de la dette est intenable et où "a country club for elites, where only those who know the right password can get in". Le National Post nous faisait part hier d'un effort de renouveau au Parti Libéral fédéral: "the Web-based membership plan is the most powerful gesture that the party can make centrally to show it's genuine about renewal". D'autres points saillants:
The Liberal party is turning to Internet membership recruitment and cross-country mini-conventions in hopes of stoking grassroots enthusiasm for what may be the most uncertain leadership race since Pierre Trudeau's unexpected victory from among a dozen candidates in 1968. [...]"There was almost a sense of bereavement in the party" when those people [i.e.Frank McKenna and three other prominent figures] turned down bids, says Akaash Maharaj, a party activist and former party policy director who called for party renewal after the electoral defeat on Jan. 23.[...]The party wants to create a Web site system for joining the Liberals in time for the leadership race as part of reform of an unwieldy party structure.[...] The cobwebs need to be blown out of it .... We're a constellation of provincial wings that is problematic from a compliance point of view, which was made blindingly evident in the Gomery process[...] referring to Justice John Gomery's inquiry into the misuse of public money, partly by the Liberals' Quebec wing, in the sponsorship scandal.[...]The party also plans cross-country all-candidate mini-conventions to debate policy and to showcase what is shaping up as a long list of contenders, many of them little-known figures. [...]We want to achieve a more open membership, and we have to use all means at our disposal to take the debate to where people are" [...]"It will be hugely invigorating. There's something enlivening about a process where everybody's at the very basic embryonic stage and we will see who and what take root."
Puisque la francophonie hors-Québec a été associée intimement au Parti Libéral fédéral pendant si longtemps, le Canard se demande si la francophonie hors-Québec se réincarnera elle aussi et nous réentendrons le discours civil Libéral parmi l'Élite franco? Le ouèbe deviendra-t-il la prochaine "flavor of the day" que les groupes d'intérêt essaieront d'accaparer tout en prétendant son ouverture? L'Élite franco participera-t-elle si elle ne peut pas le contrôler? A suivre.
[Soumise par gaulois]
Sujet: La réincarnation du Parti Libéral fédéral passe par le ouèbe