Canada needs an open primary system.
For both party leaders and MP/MLAs everyone should be able to select a party to vote for the delegate of. This should allow for the silent majority to voice an opinion in leadership and MLA races.
In Alberta outside of maybe 4 elections in history your vote hasn’t mattered and it is only by joining the party in power that you got a say in representation and leadership. There shouldn’t be a poll tax on democracy which looking at Alberta provincially and federally in most ridings there is.
This leads for the relative low cost ability to coordinate influence be it corporate, foreign actor, or special interest group. Find non-competitor ridings and win the nomination or back both in competitive ridings. The cost to sway a nomination is far less than the cost to influence an election.
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