Canada’s ruling Liberal Party is reviewing how it picks its next leader, set to be the next prime minister, after Justin Trudeau announced Monday he plans to resign. It’s facing concerns the contest is too open to foreign interference.
Canada’s ruling Liberal Party is reviewing how it picks its next leader, set to be the next prime minister, after Justin Trudeau announced Monday he plans to resign.The current rulebook sets out a vote with almost no bars to entry. To join the Liberal Party you don’t need to be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or even pay an entry fee. You just need to be 14 or older, live in Canada, and state you support the Liberals without supporting another party.
“Knowing what we know now— I’m not sure exactly what’s going to be in the Hogue report coming out —but those are some of the vulnerabilities that we can address right now to ensure and give confidence to Canadians,” said West Vancouver representative Patrick Weiler. It’s harder to implement a membership fee, but it will be discussed, he said.
The Conservative Party requires permanent residency or citizenship and asks for financial contributions. You must be a citizen and aged 18 or above to vote in a federal election.Trudeau decisively won the leadership in 2013 after the party threw open the doors for non-paying “supporters” to vote, and hundreds of thousands of people joined. More than 100,000 cast ballots in the leadership vote.
That “cooling off” period might reduce the number of last-minute joiners hoping to sway the contest —but Trudeau’s leadership has been publicly in question for months, so those who want a say in his replacement have already had plenty of time to join. “You have to be sensitive to the potential for foreign interference,” he said. The race “will be targeted by interest groups, by foreign agitant governments, possibly others who will want to make mischief and, you know, effectively try to take over a party.”The last time the Liberals rejigged their rules and picked a leader, they took almost two years—from Michael Ignatieff’s resignation in May 2011 to the election of Trudeau in April 2013.
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