Western Standard - Live： UCP AGM - The fight from the floor

00:00:00.000 one of my colleagues Dan Williams did, but for those of you who have seen pictures from my,

00:00:04.880 really from the first two years of my time as a politician, which I've spent

00:00:08.400 a better chunk of in various slings and casts, the very first day, about 30 minutes into the

00:00:13.520 election being called, and ever since thereafter, after installing my very first lawn sign, I've

00:00:18.320 dislocated my shoulder four times, broken one elbow and had one shoulder surgery. So today I took the

00:00:23.200 stairs, couldn't quite compete with Dan Williams. Thank you for clapping at my ability to get on

00:00:27.840 stage without injuring myself well hello everyone i am the very lucky mla for beautiful band canaanaskis

00:00:38.480 and while it may feel like you're all gathered here in calgary this evening as it has been

00:00:42.560 made clear tonight the great eagle and casino are situated on sutana nation land

00:00:47.840 which means that you are officially actually gathered in my constituency so welcome

00:00:51.680 Three years ago, I ran to be an MLA in this government because I truly believed that the

00:01:03.140 United Conservatives, we, the people in this room, believe this province better than the way we found

00:01:09.020 it. I believe that we would reignite Alberta's economy like never before and give the people of

00:01:14.840 this province a hope and a purpose to face their tomorrows. I believe that together we would change

00:01:21.220 Alberta forever. This past year has been difficult for all of us. Navigating the first state of

00:01:27.660 public health emergency ever declared in Alberta's 116-year-old history has divided us as a province

00:01:34.360 and divided us as conservatives. But the simplest way to change the world around you is to change

00:01:39.700 the way you view it. You elected this government on a clear mandate to save Alberta's belligerent

00:01:45.520 economy from four years of big spending, big regulating NDP. And when Albertans return to

00:01:51.520 the polls next election, that must be the ballot question. Did this government, the government of

00:01:57.440 free enterprise and self-determination, who believes that anyone can accomplish anything

00:02:02.800 with a little hard work and a good opportunity, get Albertans back to work? And on election day,

00:02:07.840 I can guarantee you that answer will be clear. Looking past the pandemic, Alberta's economy

00:02:13.200 is emerging from COVID-19 stronger and more diversified than ever before.

00:02:25.600 We've seen massive proprietary investments in tech, hydrogen, lithium, petrochemicals, solar, wind,

00:02:32.400 geothermal, biomaterials, film, with the largest production in Canadian and HBO corporate history

00:02:39.520 being filmed in Alberta in Canmore right now.

00:02:49.360 Trans Mountain Pipeline continues to progress and we just had our best year of oil production on

00:02:54.960 record. Our province shattered historical records for venture capital investment.

00:02:59.920 Major banks are predicting that we will lead the country in GDP growth this year.

00:03:04.560 We have been identified as the fastest growing green energy market in Canada

00:03:08.800 and the fastest growing tech sector in all of north america with seven billion dollars of

00:03:14.160 private sector investments made just last week so yes you heard that right the quickest growing

00:03:20.080 tech sector in all of north america and we created a next net 60 000 new jobs on top of it alberta

00:03:33.680 is entering an economic boom. So folks, that is the message we need to take to the ballot box in

00:03:44.120 two years, that these investments did not happen by accident. They were made with intentionality

00:03:49.180 as a direct result of strategic tax and regulatory policies put forward by you,

00:03:54.340 our grassroots members, and passed by this government. We've accomplished so much more

00:03:59.480 than simply rebounding our economy in two years we've expanded and protected parks and recreational

00:04:05.240 opportunities despite what see pause in the left would have would tell you we've passed legislation

00:04:11.080 to end human trafficking and support its victims we've expanded and guaranteed choice and education

00:04:17.640 we've passed prompt pay legislation for the construction industry we've barred convicted

00:04:22.920 sex offenders for being able to legally change their names we've repealed the ndp's disastrous 0.75

00:04:28.280 Bill 6. We've legalized direct farm to consumer kitchen table sales, slashed tens of thousands

00:04:35.320 of regulations, passed an equalization referendum with all of your help, and we even recently

00:04:41.000 appointed our very own Alberta Chief Firearms Officer. So this weekend let's remind ourselves

00:04:53.160 what unites us and unite around that. A thriving and vibrant free enterprise economy, limited

00:04:59.880 government and an unwavering spirit of self-determination and eternal optimism.

00:05:04.840 Let's remind ourselves that we are the leader of the conservative movement in the entire Canadian

00:05:09.800 Federation and the country needs us to stand strong. Let's remind ourselves that we as

00:05:15.800 conservatives are not what the world and the left tries to paint us as, but that we are dynamic,

00:05:20.920 modern, compassionate people from rural and urban Alberta, old and young. And let's remind

00:05:27.800 ourselves that our greatest accomplishments are those that we achieve together. And also,

00:05:33.400 let's remind ourselves that we are the greatest, friendliest, most beautiful, resilient, hardworking,

00:05:39.480 prosperous place on planet Earth. We are Albertans. Facing adversity with confidence

00:05:45.640 has always been in our DNA. And while this past year has sure tested our limits, if we

00:05:50.440 stay united around the things that unite us our best days will indeed still be to come and this

00:05:56.520 process will be secure you know doing everything virtual for this past year has distance us from

00:06:08.760 each other and it has been exceptionally difficult on the extroverts like me let me tell you and it

00:06:13.960 seems so many of our relationships so if there's anything that i'm single most excited for this

00:06:19.000 weekend is to have our giant united conservative family back together in one big room to begin

00:06:25.080 that mending process because together we will win in 2023 but only together will we win in 2023

00:06:37.800 so now i have the great pleasure of welcoming to the stage your masters of ceremonies for

00:06:42.360 our united conservative parties 2021 agm so please put your hands together for the mla for calgary

00:06:48.280 and Alberta's energy minister, the incredible

00:06:51.320 Signe Savage, and our MLA for Calgary,

00:06:54.320 the Inclinic Millican.

00:07:02.260 Thank you so much.

00:07:10.300 So, it is amazing to see everybody here.

00:07:13.300 I am especially honoured, of course, to get

00:07:16.280 get the opportunity to emcee tonight, along with some of tomorrow's festivities as well with the

00:07:22.460 Honourable Sonja Savage. Well, thank you, Nick, and it's a pleasure to be here, and good evening to

00:07:27.800 all of you. Thank you so much, everyone, for that warm welcome to all of us here. It's been wonderful

00:07:34.840 to see many familiar faces, some I've known for more than three decades through politics I've seen

00:07:40.440 tonight and it's great to see you again in person it's been far too long way way way too long it has

00:07:47.000 definitely been too long sonia i can't even tell you how amazing it feels to be back in person

00:07:53.240 with the hardest working most passionate conservatives in the country before we begin

00:07:58.040 we want to thank you of course the ucp is nothing and i mean absolutely nothing without our members

00:08:05.400 yeah that's right nick and i wouldn't be here without the support of party members like you

00:08:10.440 Thank you. Thank you all for taking the time away from your families and traveling across the province to be here tonight.

00:08:17.580 Please give yourselves a huge round of applause because you're why we're here.

00:08:25.400 And friends, as I alluded to, you are the backbone of this party.

00:08:30.640 You're the ones who go out, you knock on doors, you hit the phones, you put up the signs.

00:08:34.800 You're the ones who ensure that our constituency associations run smoothly and the battle is then therefore ready so that we can take the whole UCP message to Albertans in the next election.

00:08:47.500 I think we all know also that it is going to be coming very, very quickly as well.

00:08:52.720 Yes, and you do this work gladly and diligently despite everything else you already have on your plates, whether that's work, family, community commitments.

00:09:03.000 I can't tell you how grateful I am for our whole UCP team and for your dedication.

00:09:09.980 And a shout out to my board members and constituents who are here tonight.

00:09:14.920 And a shout out to Nick and all of us.

00:09:17.460 Yeah, we definitely appreciate, especially that this work has been so much more difficult during the pandemic.

00:09:25.480 COVID, of course, has forced us to sort of reimagine the way that we do a lot of the things,

00:09:30.020 whether it was virtually in the last one.

00:09:31.760 And, of course, it caused so many challenges that we wouldn't have had to have faced otherwise.

00:09:37.700 Yeah, that's right.

00:09:39.260 And as Albertans, we haven't been tested like this since the Great Depression and since the First and Second World Wars.

00:09:47.520 Not only were we hit by the greatest public health crisis in a century,

00:09:51.640 we had to contend with an unprecedented collapse in global energy prices and the biggest economic contraction since the 1930s.

00:10:01.560 it's been tough yeah but as we did in all of those other times we will do now we will get through

00:10:08.280 this because no people are tougher more resilient or more determined than albertans it doesn't

00:10:14.040 matter if you've been here for five generations or if you've been here for five minutes when faced

00:10:19.640 with adversity albertans band together we stay focused and we will always do what needs to be

00:10:25.800 be done and the same goes for our party it wasn't long ago conservatives were split in Alberta I think

00:10:33.720 we can all agree that those were very dark days they were days when Rachel not Lee and her NDP

00:10:40.120 government were doing everything they possibly could to destroy the Alberta advantage they

00:10:45.320 damaged our improv province and they imperiled our future yeah tax hikes out of control spending job

00:10:51.880 killing regulations and policies, you name it, if it could hurt the economy, the NDP found a way to do

00:10:57.880 it. And the really frightening thing is this. If we hadn't united as Conservatives, Rachel Notley

00:11:03.320 and her crew would likely still be at it. And I can truly say that I believe that without unity,

00:11:09.760 there is absolutely no way that Calgary Curry would have gone to the UCP. I know that Sonia

00:11:15.980 had the opportunity to give a shout out to her board. I have to give a shout out to my board 1.00

00:11:19.580 volunteers as well. I can tell you without any second thought that without the work that was done

00:11:26.140 within my constituency and I know from the bottom of my heart from all the other MLAs we all feel

00:11:31.020 this way. Nobody would be an MLA. I for sure would not be standing up here as an MLA if it wasn't for

00:11:37.980 all of the work that you guys did. So thank you so much.

00:11:40.620 That's all so true Nick. The damage that the NDP did to our economy is just unfathomable.

00:11:50.540 And let's not forget that the NDP killed a number of pipelines along the way. We need to remember,

00:11:58.380 we need to remember that we're a big tent party. Everyone isn't always going to agree on every

00:12:03.740 single issue. And that's fine, we're Conservatives. So we like to hash out our differences in

00:12:09.820 constructive good faith debates at the end of the day though we've got we've got to always have our

00:12:17.340 eye on the big picture that's what makes our party so successful we put aside the small differences

00:12:23.260 that divided us and unite around the fundamental principles that define us as conservatives i know

00:12:28.220 that mla uh rosen mentioned some of them things like free enterprise free speech uh supports for

00:12:34.060 strong families and communities it's a big tent party and i'm telling you that's the way it should

00:12:39.260 be, especially for me in Calgary Curry.

00:12:41.260 Yeah.

00:12:43.260 Thanks.

00:12:45.260 Thank you.

00:12:47.260 We know that it's been a very

00:12:49.260 bruising year and a half.

00:12:51.260 But there's hope on the horizon.

00:12:53.260 There are good news stories right across the

00:12:55.260 province.

00:12:57.260 Energy production is at its highest levels

00:12:59.260 ever.

00:13:01.260 The number of active drilling rigs is up

00:13:03.260 tenfold this year over last year.

00:13:05.260 Investment is returning.

00:13:07.260 that jobs with that hope and with that prosperity for all albertans absolutely

00:13:16.700 and did you know the number of active businesses in the province has gone up by

00:13:23.020 every in all of the last 14 months and honestly it drives me crazy truly because these are the

00:13:29.020 good news stories that for whatever reason the media and social never seem to pick up

00:13:34.300 what's more alberta has recovered all jobs lost since the start of the pandemic and even before

00:13:39.900 the pandemic economic trends were going up and in recent weeks premier kenny announced billions

00:13:46.540 of dollars in private sector investment and that's going to create thousands of jobs just

00:13:51.500 last week was actually a seven billion dollar week seven billion dollars of projects announced

00:14:02.220 right across the province corner to corner corner and what a great start that is and things continue

00:14:08.540 to grow but with an election just two years away less than two years away we've got a lot more to

00:14:15.660 do and that work begins here tonight at this AGM you can't keep Albertans down yes this is the

00:14:24.780 greatest test we've faced in our lifetimes but just like we've gone just like throughout all

00:14:30.700 of the history of our province we will fight and we will find a way forward here here

00:14:38.940 all right now thank you so much that is enough obviously from us let's get things moving it is

00:14:43.660 my pleasure to introduce a woman well known to many of you please welcome our 2021 AGM chair

00:14:50.860 and the incoming UC president, Cynthia Moore.

00:15:05.500 Thank you, Sonia and Nick, for agreeing to be our MCs for the weekend.

00:15:10.780 Don't they make a cute couple. Let's just give an applause for them. 1.00

00:15:15.580 And I know you're anxious to get on with your governance work tonight,

00:15:19.660 so this will be a very short my job is to thank those who are involved in this and i am cynthia

00:15:26.300 moore and i'm chair of the agm organizing committee and first of course i'd like to sincerely thank

00:15:31.340 all of you for registering and being here tonight this is our first fully in-person gathering in

00:15:37.340 two years let's give it up for everyone who has supported this event and i say 1500 strong just

00:15:48.060 so you know this is our fourth annual general meeting as a party from the founding meeting in

00:15:54.060 red deer where you came out 2200 strong to 2019 at the weston airport where despite eating out

00:16:01.500 of food trucks we managed to get our business done we thought last year's AGM would be the

00:16:07.660 most challenging our first fully virtual meeting thank you to everyone who participated and for

00:16:14.300 those that provided encouraging feedback you made it a great success little did we know what lay ahead

00:16:22.140 now for 2021 the agm committee with the support of our ucp executive director dustin van voet

00:16:30.140 and his team and our organizer extraordinaire vita brody spent months agonizing over what form this

00:16:37.340 gathering would take everyone here is aware of the uncertainty involved but

00:16:44.340 with the introduction of the restriction exemption program we saw a path forward

00:16:49.440 and frankly having a beer with all of you later tonight was motivation enough

00:16:54.520 in order for this event to remain safe for everyone involved we thank you for

00:17:05.000 following the rules. We all know we have a weekend full of business. I like to

00:17:11.100 recognize the folks who spent many hours shepherding the PPGC process and the

00:17:16.700 members and many constituency associations who participated. The

00:17:21.380 governance and policy plenaries are the epitome of our grassroots involvement.

00:17:26.080 You'll be seeing David Price and Blair York Slater shortly. We're in good hands

00:17:32.600 with seasoned pros thank you david and blair from the bottom of our hearts for joining us again this

00:17:39.320 year on sunday and you don't want to miss sunday please join us for our first election 2023 training

00:17:51.000 session in this in the morning we're excited to have a special guest speaker from the leadership

00:17:57.640 institute out of virginia founded in 1979 leadership institute provides training in campaigns

00:18:05.800 fundraising grassroots organizing youth politics and communications in addition to their expertise

00:18:13.880 our own election readiness guru andreas motra and mla for cameras jackie lovely will be host

00:18:21.720 training that will take the teachings from leadership institute and apply to our alberta

00:18:26.680 setting. You don't want to miss it. We're excited to see you here. Enjoy the time connecting with

00:18:34.020 old friends and meeting new. Above all, remember that we are the United Conservatives. Thank you.

00:18:46.800 Thank you very much, Cynthia. Not only just for those remarks, of course, but for the

00:18:52.140 the unbelievable amount of work that you put into

00:18:55.080 for this AGM, and I would like to take this

00:18:57.820 opportunity to ask everyone to give her

00:19:00.140 another well-deserved round of applause for

00:19:01.920 everything that she has done.

00:19:07.420 And it's our pleasure to introduce the two

00:19:09.700 volunteers who will act as your chairs for

00:19:12.100 tonight's governance debate and tomorrow's

00:19:14.460 policy debate.

00:19:16.000 You'll no doubt recognize both of them

00:19:18.160 from previous AGMs.

00:19:20.160 First up is a leading legal practitioner in high stakes corporate and commercial litigation at

00:19:26.400 Bennett Jones here in Calgary. We're thrilled he's agreed to do this again this year. And thank you,

00:19:32.880 Blair York Slater. He is here. You know, let's introduce them both at the exact same time.

00:19:41.360 Joining Blair, we have another well known Calgary lawyer who specializes in labor and employment law.

00:19:47.600 He served as Secretary of the Wild Rose Party for several years prior to its merger with the Progressive Conservative Party.

00:19:56.180 He also worked and helped me on my campaign.

00:19:58.520 Following the merger of the Wild Rose and the PCs, he served as a member of the UCP Founding Policy and Governance Committee.

00:20:07.720 And last year, joined Blair as co-chair, I'm sure you'll all remember, to the first and, of course, very successful virtual AGM.

00:20:15.540 Please welcome, as well as Blair, David Price, this is going to be for you to take it over.

00:20:22.820 And of course, one last thing that I think I should probably mention as they come up is that

00:20:27.060 we should probably leave because now I'm starting to count four lawyers on the stage.

00:20:31.660 There's too many lawyers here.

00:20:34.400 So thank you very much, gentlemen.

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00:25:15.540 which would be likely to unduly delay the efficient progress of the ATM of course

00:25:33.800 there likely will be legitimate points of order or privilege that Ember wants to

00:25:38.400 rate and we will use our discussions fairly here now regarding the debate and

00:25:46.920 voting process respect to the debate on resolutions the process will essentially

00:25:51.660 be as follows will proceed through each resolution order that they appear in

00:25:56.940 your policy and governance booklet I'll have a copy of the booklet the

00:26:02.440 resolutions can be found at the party website and one there click on documents

00:26:07.960 FAQs, down to policy proposals, governance proposals, special resolutions and so on.

00:26:17.840 Every single resolution in your booklet will be debated and voted on over the course of

00:26:22.460 the next few days.

00:26:24.080 No resolution will be left behind and today we are going to be debating governance resolutions

00:26:29.380 only.

00:26:30.380 Tomorrow we will be dealing with policy resolutions only.

00:26:35.380 as we call up a resolution for today we will identify it and its location as a

00:26:40.180 resolution booklet however we will not read out each resolution for you instead

00:26:45.160 you're going to see slides here on the screens either side of us set out the

00:26:50.700 full resolution or possible for longer resolutions the slides only going to

00:26:56.260 part resolution have to refer to the booklet or online for resolution so

00:27:05.260 we'll hear first from the proponent of the resolution by way of a pre-recorded

00:27:10.060 video of up to 60 seconds in length. If there's no video submitted we will ask

00:27:16.060 the proposer of the resolution to the mic and that individual will have 60 seconds

00:27:21.220 to speak to his resolution. Then, much as done in previous years, we'll hear from up to three

00:27:27.900 speakers against the resolution and two additional speakers for the resolution

00:27:33.100 alternating if you're at the mic again as in previous years we ask to identify

00:27:43.620 yourself and your constituency at the start of your remarks you'll be provided

00:27:48.280 with 30 seconds to speak clock the timer here in the bottom right hand portion of

00:27:53.600 the side screen

00:27:56.280 left try to observe that now after we've heard from three speakers we will give

00:28:07.700 the proponent an opportunity to provide a 30-second real-time so you're the

00:28:13.800 proposer resolution wish to take that opportunity ready and make your way to

00:28:20.720 at the front of the room in a timely fashion or Mike stage yes please know

00:28:31.220 technicians are going to cut the microphone off after a lot of time so

00:28:36.680 bear that in mind as you formulate your remarks in past years our rules and

00:28:44.180 procedures have provided our elected MLA is the opportunity to speak proposals

00:28:49.100 in preference to party members without counting towards the limit of three

00:28:53.280 speakers or three speakers against. That rule is no more so MLA's will not be

00:28:59.720 given and must line up at the microphones on a first-come and first-served

00:29:04.640 face so that's the debate process we're going to repeat brief resolution tonight

00:29:12.880 and finally we must caution sternly that any member who makes an unparliamentary comment

00:29:22.720 or otherwise disrupts the proceedings may receive a warning subsequent or sufficiently

00:29:29.120 unparliamentary behavior a result in a member being asked to leave the session you may say to

00:29:35.040 yourself well what is unparliamentary behavior i looked it up

00:29:44.080 the characteristic unparliamentary expression is to say that the speaker who 0.52

00:29:51.680 proceeding with the mic is a liar. You may not say that. You may be evicted from default for saying that. But you might say that the previous speaker succumbed to terminological inexactitude. That will not be unparliamentary behavior.

00:30:15.680 voting when the debate for each resolution is finished we will call for a vote members must

00:30:24.780 be present in the plenary session in order to vote and unlike some elections in the Maritimes

00:30:33.200 a number of years ago you may only vote once voting will be done in the old-fashioned way

00:30:39.020 It was a call to come back to this and I'm glad we did.

00:30:43.340 So voting will be done by raising your card.

00:30:46.060 There is a, say for or against or yes or no.

00:30:50.260 I forgot to vote.

00:30:51.260 It says yes or no.

00:30:52.260 It's green and red for those that have it.

00:30:54.840 Yes and no.

00:30:55.840 Very old fashioned.

00:30:56.840 So if you wish to vote yes, face yes toward us so that we know that that's what you need.

00:31:04.740 So we will first call for those in favor of a resolution to raise their voting cards.

00:31:13.180 And why don't we do a test of that?

00:31:15.680 Can you all raise your green side of your card to face us?

00:31:20.180 Perfect.

00:31:21.180 And now you get the drill.

00:31:22.680 If you're going to vote against it, you'll raise the red side of your card to face us.

00:31:26.840 Perfect.

00:31:27.840 So where a show of cards provides us with a clear visual result towards 50% or 75% of

00:31:34.380 percent are applicable will declare the result without a precise count of cards however a show

00:31:40.380 of cards does not produce a clear result we're going to require a count of the cards and ask

00:31:45.420 everyone to raise their cards again and hold them up so that our volunteer counters can tally votes

00:31:52.380 once a vote is conducted we will announce the result of the vote before moving on to the next

00:31:57.900 resolution and full voting results for all resolutions will be posted online after the

00:32:03.980 AGM has concluded. Please bear in mind as in previous years there are different voting

00:32:09.500 thresholds for different types of resolutions. A policy resolution requires a majority vote

00:32:15.500 from members rich to members present. Special resolutions that are the hardest bylaws require

00:32:21.660 support 75% governance solutions affected the parties other

00:32:27.360 constitutional documents require a majority vote. Let me just say it shares this it's

00:32:37.520 great to be back with you in person again.

00:32:42.980 so let's let's make it a good meeting it's nice to see all good person that's

00:32:54.720 the first resolution over you yes and I think as a housekeeping matter the

00:33:02.020 bylaws require us to observe quorum quorum for all general meetings is the

00:33:07.340 The lesser of the majority of the members at large are 200 and I think from a visual

00:33:13.220 count we have a clear 200 plus members in attendance and I'm also informed that the

00:33:19.160 registration numbers are and people who checked in are well in excess of 200 so I declare

00:33:24.140 that we have a quorum so we're going to move on to motion number one and from where I'm

00:33:30.020 seated, I can't see. I think it's up there now. Okay, we've got motion number one. We

00:33:37.420 have a video of the proponent. Motion one can be found in page two of your

00:33:47.360 booklet. So we're going to have a video from okay this is the housekeeping

00:34:02.620 motion so is there is there anybody from the board of directors that wants to

00:34:06.240 speak to motion one?

00:34:17.360 Don't see anybody from the party board that wants to speak does anybody a member at large want to speak in favor of motion one

00:34:30.980 Okay, and we'll go to speakers opposed to motion one

00:34:37.120 You're waiting for the next motion, okay, well seeing that nobody wants to debate motion one. Why don't we call the question?

00:34:47.360 is anybody opposed to the motion I'm not sure I see a single car oh I see one red

00:34:57.560 card but I think that's more than 50% so I declare motion one carry

00:35:03.880 Governance resolution number one submitted by Calgary Glenmore, we have a video.

00:35:19.880 I'm Robert, with Calgary Glenmore, speaking of resolution number one,

00:35:26.880 Amending Article 6 of the Rules of Governing Constituency Association by Press 4.1. The resolution eliminates the current requirement that candidates for the CA board director must sign the party's non-disclosure agreement and code of conduct acknowledgment.

00:35:47.260 2. Candidates, however, must affirm that they will sign the acknowledgement should they

00:35:53.880 be elected.

00:35:54.880 3. The CA must provide members that might be considered being candidates with a copy

00:36:01.640 of the agreement.

00:36:03.860 4. This amendment eliminates the members at large who are not board members but have

00:36:10.160 signed the acknowledgement from potentially having access to confidential party information.

00:36:16.500 thank you

00:36:28.020 the constituency that you represent or talk guinnisville silva lake welcome back mr tulk

00:36:34.980 thank you for having me and not uh first off i want to say there's nothing i would rather do on

00:36:40.260 a Friday night, sit around with all these lovely people and discuss governance of our

00:36:45.280 party. I mean that sincerely. I very much look forward to commiserating with you further

00:36:51.300 at the various hospitality suites. The issue with this resolution is twofold. One is, if

00:36:59.280 you're not prepared to sign the non-disclosure resolution before you win, why should we let

00:37:04.280 you win at all? They should be signing up front that they're not going to disclose these

00:37:08.760 things that are pertinent to the issue at hand. Secondarily, and I'm conscious of my time,

00:37:14.560 21 days is far too prescriptive. We've just been through COVID. We know there's all kinds

00:37:19.660 of forest measure issues. It can make it impossible to fulfill that requirement of 21 days. Thank you.

00:37:31.120 Yes, Mike. We'll move to the no mic. Can I tell the technical people that we're not seeing the

00:37:36.360 clock uh yes sir can you identify yourself and your constituents hi good evening blair and dave

00:37:47.480 chris mowing back again we got the gord and chris show again for another lovely evening of uh

00:37:53.640 governance debate uh as gord kind of stole my point uh my point here up the note is

00:38:00.040 the 21-day rule could be used against a or a prospective board member that they don't give

00:38:07.880 you the uh you know they don't give you the code of conduct oh sorry you didn't meet the 21-day

00:38:12.760 rule so therefore you can't be on our board that's unfair let's have the election if they 0.99

00:38:18.760 get elected they sign it as a condition of being on the board thank you yes mike we'll go back to

00:38:27.800 to vote badly for the motion

00:38:39.320 one more speaker against yes sir no i'm speaking against the next motion

00:38:46.680 wish to speak any further in favor of or opposed to governance resolution number two seeing no one

00:38:53.640 we will vote all those in favor of the resolution please raise your yes card

00:39:03.260 opposed if any okay and we'll move on to government resolution number two

00:39:17.320 submitted by Edmonton Northwest, and we will roll a video.

00:39:26.320 Hi, my name is Ali Al-Tayyamon.

00:39:29.320 I am a constituency.

00:39:32.320 Our motion proposes to change the threshold for a leadership review

00:39:37.320 from one quarter of the constituencies to one third.

00:39:41.320 There are good reasons to do this.

00:39:44.320 In order to remove a constituency level board member, our rules require a two-thirds majority.

00:39:51.320 To remove a director or officer on the provincial board, our rules also require a two-thirds majority.

00:40:01.320 But to try and remove the leader, you only need one quarter because it makes sense.

00:40:09.320 A leadership review is a legitimate process.

00:40:14.760 We just believe the bar should be set at least a bit higher.

00:40:19.520 We think one-third is enough.

00:40:22.200 Thank you.

00:40:23.200 So we'll go to the no microphone now for the first speaker against governance resolution

00:40:32.040 number two.

00:40:33.040 So my name is Derek Casey, I'm from Grand Prairie.

00:40:39.000 I certainly don't think that the writer of this policy intended to mislead, but I want

00:40:45.040 to just clarify that I'm sure everyone has heard that there are some rumors that there

00:40:49.080 is a motion, there is a campaign moving towards this very thing.

00:40:54.580 So the thing that I want to speak against is, of course, the idea that what this is

00:40:59.880 allowing members to do is to overthrow the leader.

00:41:04.380 That certainly is not the case at all.

00:41:06.620 One quarter of the CAs is, in fact, has the power here to call for a special general meeting.

00:41:16.980 Okay.

00:41:24.420 Second speaker.

00:41:26.000 Just so everybody knows, we are counting the proponent video as one speaker in favor.

00:41:31.300 So the second speaker in favor.

00:41:33.380 thank you mr price for the clarification there that we are on the yes vote uh i calculate out

00:41:39.620 that if you have one quarter of cas you're talking about 200 people and that's assuming that all 22

00:41:46.020 cas have unanimous votes for them at one third it's not the greatest but at least it's more people

00:41:54.260 my preference would actually be that we have a grassroots driven one member one vote to have

00:42:00.020 a special meeting but in favor of that i think the more days that vote in favor the better my

00:42:07.220 preference would be half so again i encourage everybody to vote yes thank you over i've got to

00:42:12.820 cut you off we'll go to another speaker yes the motion hi my name is becky lee is drayton valley

00:42:21.460 devon i'm a long time staffer been around ucp very long time like to make three specific points

00:42:27.140 about this motion there was this resolution was not on the list of proposed policies when we went

00:42:33.460 to rank our choices number two i would like to mention there have been a ton of unethical and

00:42:37.860 questionable things happening in the leading up to this agm number three look around we do not

00:42:43.300 have seats full the people that are coming from far away the people who are here and need to vote

00:42:48.980 on this motion are being blocked outside right now because there is a protest of 30 people the

00:42:55.060 facility uh my name is george clark i'm a dcp member from the start calgary east here in calgary

00:43:11.860 and for the last six years i've been involved in grassroots politics and the conservative movement

00:43:18.340 i don't think 22 is a high enough threshold there's too many writings that don't even have

00:43:24.900 proper representation and we need to change that we need to change it further beyond this third

00:43:31.220 at future agms so i'm saying yes to this increase thank you sir we'll now go to our final speaker

00:43:42.420 against the motion in his fail sylvan lake you couldn't more poorly time a resolution in this one

00:43:52.600 um but the bigger point is we're only asked requiring a 25 threshold to be reached

00:43:58.800 we're not and nobody is trying to overthrow a leader they're calling into question whether

00:44:03.440 that leader is up to snuff there's another 75 who wouldn't have spoken at that point

00:44:08.760 they will have the opportunity with the vote going forward one third is too high a threshold

00:44:13.380 and then the whole debate about recall is rendered moot we need to have the ability

00:44:17.920 to question ourselves and answer back frankly thank you thank you mr. tall so we've had three

00:44:27.600 speakers in favor and three against but there is a right of rebuttal for the moving constituency

00:44:32.880 of edmonton northwest if anybody from edmonton northwest wants to speak for 30 seconds with a

00:44:39.520 rebuttal seeing no one uh we'll call the question then and for clarification as this is an amendment

00:44:48.960 to the bylaws of the party we'll need a 75 threshold for this to pass all those in favor

00:44:57.920 of the motion please raise your card okay and those opposed

00:45:10.880 we're going to go to account folks so all those in favor please hold your

00:45:15.600 green facing card up and please hold it up until we tell you to put it down thank you

00:45:27.920 Thank you.

00:45:57.920 Thank you.

00:46:27.920 soothing music we'll get some rock for later

00:46:57.920 Okay, everybody can now put their cards down and

00:47:27.900 those against the motion raise their card are you gonna raise the point of

00:47:35.280 order sir so we've got more counters coming in for subsequent votes but I

00:47:51.880 believe everybody was counted but if they weren't we'll make sure to go back

00:47:56.340 can do that I think that was mr. Kent earlier saying it but I've confirmed

00:48:12.600 notice that we've moved from elevator music to the animals

00:48:42.600 Oh,

00:49:12.600 Thank you.

00:49:42.600 Okay, everybody, you can put your cards down while we make some calculations.

00:49:59.300 You know, I have to say, Blair, things went a lot quicker for the calendar last day.

00:50:05.480 Democracy works so much more smoothly when you don't vote.

00:50:10.480 Thank you.

00:50:40.480 Ladies and gentlemen, going forward when we're counting, your counter for your section is

00:51:06.820 going to let you know when to put your cards down so you don't have to hold it up quite so long next

00:51:11.060 time so just make sure you make some eye contact with your counter and they'll likely tell you put

00:51:16.420 Put your card down, they've got you counted.

00:51:46.420 Thank you.

00:52:16.420 Thank you.

00:52:46.420 okay

00:53:00.420 okay folks we've got the tally for governance resolution number two uh 670 votes cast there

00:53:23.540 were 385 in favor 285 against that's about 57 and a half percent so the motion is defeated

00:53:31.780 because it requires 75 percent of the pass

00:53:43.220 governance resolution number three

00:53:45.380 Calgary-Curry and we have the video.

00:53:53.760 Hi, I'm Steve McLeod on behalf of Calgary-Curry and former UCB founding AGM Policy Committee

00:53:59.780 member and recent Alberta Rep for the Federal Conservative National Policy Committee.

00:54:04.060 Our policy declaration has increased in scope and complexity since the founding AGM and

00:54:09.140 with it also in both redundancy and expired items the government has already enacted.

00:54:13.840 We typically only hear 30 items at an AGM, so it is natural that members use that time to focus on new policy ideas, leaving no time for basic housekeeping measures.

00:54:25.640 As a result, our policy book becomes bloated and unmanageable, confusing to the public, too inconsistent for MLAs to use for legislation, and impossible for our members to administer and amend themselves using the normal process.

00:54:39.500 This proposal mirrors successful recent mechanisms enacted by the Federal Conservatives and empowers our PBGC to put forward housekeeping proposals to vote upon in ways that do not detract from the time to consider new proposals, such as the use of balloting outside the plenary, all while keeping our declaration in the hands of the grassroots.

00:55:00.960 Thank you.

00:55:04.720 Over to the no mic.

00:55:06.360 Sure.

00:55:07.520 Hi there.

00:55:08.120 Thank you, Blair.

00:55:08.640 today Chris Moten for this one I'll go with Calvi Edgemont where I'm on the board

00:55:13.100 shut up Prasad there

00:55:14.840 alright so I'm speaking out against this governance resolution 0.85

00:55:21.280 I'm also on provincial policy and governance committee this year

00:55:25.420 thank you to everybody for putting me on this board

00:55:28.420 PPGC already has this power

00:55:31.580 we choose not to use it because as we learned in 2018

00:55:35.940 and enforced in 2019, anything that comes out of PPGC, not from the grassroots, gets voted down.

00:55:44.100 So please, vote this down and allow us to do the grassroots work of facilitators.

00:55:49.200 Thank you.

00:55:52.540 Dave Jackson, Edmonton City Centre, and also a member of the Conservative Party of Canada National Policy Committee.

00:55:59.460 and I'm pleased to say that this resolution goes beyond what the Federal Conservative Party of

00:56:06.500 Canada has done for cleanup of their book. Their book just keeps growing and growing and growing

00:56:13.000 without a sufficient cleanup. This resolution locks in the grassroots to be able to do the

00:56:20.380 cleanup at convention with proposals coming forward from the PPGC. Thank you very much.

00:56:25.980 would all do respect to the previous speaker the power already exists within the ppgc to do what

00:56:39.540 we need to do in terms of housekeeping and working with the local cas to do any housekeeping content

00:56:46.420 we do not need non the cas and their members should be running the policy and governance 0.95

00:56:53.580 resolution process not the pvgc who frankly are appointed by email people asking and pleading

00:57:00.540 frankly to be a part of the pvgc let's keep it the way it is let's let the cas make those decisions

00:57:06.540 thank you sir thank you chair steve mcleod uh i'd also like the the writer rebuttal at the end but

00:57:14.780 as the proposer i i have to have the what was your argument blair uh take a leave of their senses or

00:57:21.100 something like that but pragmatically we never hear housekeeping motions at an agm and that's

00:57:27.980 perfectly understandable we want to put new things they're the sexy things that we want in the policy

00:57:32.780 book but quite frankly our book needs some sensible editing and if the ppgc would put

00:57:38.700 sensible housekeeping proposals to the members they would be supported and endorsed

00:57:43.580 last speaker of kuno mike anybody want to speak against the resolution

00:57:53.980 going once twice um i guess technically you could have 30 seconds more thank you chairs uh so here's

00:58:03.260 hit chairs history shows it's almost impossible to get housekeeping proposals on the plenary floor

00:58:08.140 and further many members will rank a proposal without ever considering whether it's already

00:58:13.020 there already speaks to it or it causes conflict with the existing statements or whether the

00:58:17.680 government's already done it. And in fact, some of the resolutions you'll see tomorrow will speak

00:58:21.740 to exactly this. They will pass and they will only further add to our bloat on the policy book.

00:58:27.740 It is prudent to empower the PPGC and get over this stigma that they're not allowed to propose

00:58:33.460 anything and put it in the constitution that they are allowed to facilitate and compile

00:58:38.520 essential housekeeping proposals to bring to our consideration in a way that

00:58:43.120 does not come at the expense of new items we want to consider and is only

00:58:46.620 ratified with a grassroots blessing.

00:58:50.520 I went to law school so I didn't have to do math.

00:58:55.520 Can I ask, you heard me at the beginning say how nice it is for us all to be back

00:59:01.620 together again and invent it, but I wonder if the people at the back of the hall

00:59:07.020 in a socially less than distant fashion while the rest of us are doing the hard

00:59:15.120 work that needs to be done could you just slide outside please because we need

00:59:19.080 quiet here it's a difficult room to hear thank you 50% required to pass sorry

00:59:27.300 Sorry, we're through.

00:59:30.540 All those in favor.

00:59:38.880 Opposed?

00:59:41.300 Motion passes.

00:59:50.560 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:59:51.400 I'm told that it was a point of order.

00:59:53.620 I didn't appreciate that.

00:59:55.540 but if it's not too late, go ahead.

00:59:57.420 Well, the point of order, hopefully going forward,

00:59:59.140 I just want some clarification.

01:00:01.300 If the proponent, the proposer, gets to speak at last,

01:00:04.980 they don't get to speak three times,

01:00:06.480 which is what he did.

01:00:09.900 Unless you're prepared to let,

01:00:12.720 if there's only two at this mic,

01:00:14.240 somebody to come around and speak a second time.

01:00:16.540 That would only be fair in my opinion.

01:00:18.620 Your sense of fairness, Mr. Tulke,

01:00:20.780 would tell you that if there are so few people

01:00:24.900 prepared to speak in favor of a motion that the proponent needs to speak to it three times we

01:00:30.060 should let them. I don't know if I agree on that. They get two cracks at the bat and nobody else

01:00:35.820 does. Clearly you're right. In the event that anyone else in the hall wished to have the mic,

01:00:41.580 Mr. McLeod would have had to cede to that individual, would not have been allowed to

01:00:45.240 speak until the end. My judgment was that, as I say, since he wasn't taking anyone else's spot,

01:00:52.760 we could have that one. Number three passes. Okay we'll move on to governance

01:01:11.000 resolution number four which has been submitted by Calgary Northwest and as an

01:01:18.260 amendment to the constituency association rules and we will cue a video

01:01:26.420 hello i am ann burke vice president of policy

01:01:31.060 for calgary northwest our current rules for constituency association board

01:01:37.460 provide for 30 directors of which up to 10 may be officers

01:01:43.780 the quorum for board meetings is the lesser of one-third of directors or one-half of the officers

01:01:52.740 our amendment means that one-third of directors 10 of 30 would remain as quorum but remove one-half

01:02:01.860 of the officers 5 of 10 because 5 is insufficient quorum for a board meeting it would instead be

01:02:11.220 quorum for a meeting of the officers i hope you will support our resolution

01:02:20.580 okay we will go to speakers against mr talk we're talking as much as i admire ann and i'm a huge fan

01:02:28.340 of ann i disagree with her proposal here if you read it correctly basically it means that only

01:02:35.380 one-third of directors can call a meeting and have no officers present whatsoever um that's

01:02:41.060 a vitally different thing and i think in what the intent of this writing of the governance was at

01:02:45.220 first you obviously i think need to have at least some of the officers present in order to be of

01:02:50.900 effective quorum so i very much uh with all due respect to him would like to see this defeated

01:02:55.540 thank you it will go to the yes mike is there anybody who wants to speak to governance resolution

01:03:04.420 number four in favor of the motion

01:03:15.300 uh yes cvp calgary northwest i have a point of order um and i don't see a resolution up on the

01:03:25.940 screen it was an error in your in your book so the existing resolution is

01:03:35.140 just a sec could we get the resolution can we stop the clock can we see the resolution

01:03:40.900 yeah the resolution is now on the screen

01:03:45.700 uh

01:03:49.940 lesser of the directors or one half of the officers our proposal agreement reads the quorum

01:03:58.260 for ca board meetings that would be one-third of the directors and for meetings of the officers

01:04:04.660 one half of the officers thank you thank you mr burke um order um i can say that the

01:04:13.460 copies on screens have been fixed to state as you said but they've not been corrected

01:04:19.460 the booklets that have been printed just because they went to print before the arrow was caught so

01:04:23.140 we apologize for that that was your point of order but is there anybody that wanted to speak in favor

01:04:30.100 of the motion itself mr mohan hi there chris mohan calgary northwest chief financial officer

01:04:37.140 speaking in favor of this motion uh as my uh colleague on uh and has said there is a correction

01:04:43.780 into your books. Our intention is to have in any meeting, it has to have either the president

01:04:50.740 or the CFO present in order to conduct the meeting. In order to get the quorum for 10 officers,

01:04:59.900 that's just simply a functionality of trying to manage our meetings that we are all part of.

01:05:07.600 So thank you. I encourage you to vote yes to resolution four.

01:05:13.780 and we have a speaker against mr mcleod apologies chair for being up again so recently but with

01:05:23.300 great respect to mr moan and and who i also have great respect for your intention may have been

01:05:28.660 you stated but this resolution as drafted does not do that there's no such thing as a meeting

01:05:35.780 of the officers defined anywhere in our constitution so i'm not sure how this is

01:05:40.500 applicable to the ca board i think this needs to be redrafted and i would likely support it if it was

01:05:54.180 anybody in favor of the motion

01:05:57.940 um i'm ray burke from calgary edgemont and um just to respond to gordon talk i think that the existing

01:06:07.860 um bylaw says or so it means that either you have one third of the members or one half of the

01:06:17.860 directors so the idea is that you can have a board meeting called by the president

01:06:23.780 and have four other people and that's considered quorum and that's wrong so we're trying to just

01:06:31.060 to eliminate the five board members all meetings are called by the president it's not like boards

01:06:39.300 of directors

01:06:59.940 yes when we reviewed this in the ca rules our chief concern was should the officers

01:07:09.220 or be meeting on their own so we're a grassroots organization and we say no to that currently the

01:07:18.660 office can call a meeting and call it a board meeting although none of the other directors are

01:07:26.900 present and that's why we hope you'll support our resolution thank you thank you mr uh so we will

01:07:37.060 now call the question and this is a amendment to the constituency

01:07:41.880 association all those in favor and could I see a show of cards against the

01:07:53.660 motion many people aren't voting sorry could I see in favor one more time the

01:08:16.660 nose one more time please folks my suspicion is it's defeated but if

01:08:33.700 somebody wants to call account I will let them do that sir you'd like to call

01:08:41.440 account then we'll do a card count all those in favor of the motion

01:09:11.440 .

01:09:41.440 Thank you.

01:10:11.440 Thank you.

01:10:41.440 Thank you.

01:11:11.440 Okay, all those against the motion, please raise your cards so you can count them.

01:11:41.440 Thank you.

01:12:11.440 Thank you.

01:12:41.440 Thank you.

01:13:11.440 We're here.

01:13:41.440 you

01:13:59.280 oh

01:14:11.440 oh

01:14:21.440 okay ladies and gentlemen the motion is defeated by a margin of 59 percent to 41

01:14:51.000 percent over 201 votes in favor 289 against resolution number five edmonton city center we

01:15:11.960 have a new video hello UCP members David Jackson director of policy at the city center special

01:15:24.040 resolution number two clarifies that it is the grassroots elected board of directors of the

01:15:28.920 party that develops and implements rules and procedures to ensure fair and effective candidate

01:15:34.280 recruitment and selection the board needs to be empowered to make timely decisions especially

01:15:40.200 just before and during an election period when there is no time to call a special general meeting

01:15:45.720 of the party to tinker with the rules or grant waivers no one wants all rules that do not stand

01:15:52.600 discreetly a year after adoption that deny a-listers and impose second-rate candidates

01:15:59.480 no set of rules will be perfect situations change electoral laws change i would urge the membership

01:16:06.200 developed to empower their grassroots elected board of directors to set the rules on candidate

01:16:12.040 recruitment and selection don't lock yourself in to second best

01:16:18.760 i think you have these notes in your booklet but let me just say two things this is

01:16:23.240 uh a resolution a governance resolution requiring a 70 percent 75 percent threshold it is also a

01:16:31.640 resolution of a similar nature to governance resolution 13 and for that

01:16:39.140 reason in the event that both resolutions pass the resolution that

01:16:45.240 receives the higher level of support will be adopted that may or may not

01:16:54.380 not require a count of oath as it comes mr talk this is a terrible idea this gives council a

01:17:10.760 complete blank every single CA as whether this is this is the antithesis of grassroots frankly

01:17:21.860 and it basically opens up the entire process to the discretion or will of the council.

01:17:29.480 Please, please do not support this resolution.

01:17:35.060 Mr. Javon.

01:17:36.640 Hi there. Christopher Moe of Cowdery and Foothills.

01:17:39.200 I encourage you to vote yes to this proposal,

01:17:43.320 specifically because candidate selection, recruitment selection,

01:17:47.120 any leader needs to select those core people.

01:17:51.860 that will fill specific jobs such as for energy such as for solid panda for infrastructure such

01:17:59.220 as jason lou on a social worker for the social services file in order to do that they need to

01:18:04.340 select the right people into the position and in and they need to get elected first so please allow

01:18:10.580 the board to do its work in regards to changing and altering candidate selection rules thank you

01:18:16.340 and shout out thank you uh yes sir hi mike labears with calvary glenmore i encourage everybody to

01:18:25.460 vote known to this this is an absolute top-down dictatorial method of dealing with anti-grassroots

01:18:34.500 if this goes through our grassroots is on the table for removal and we are no longer as we

01:18:41.220 heard at the beginning united on the basis of our grassroots this cannot go forward please vote no

01:18:48.100 thank you anyone else at the yes mike

01:18:57.060 see no one to the no yes sir great thank you uh good evening everyone

01:19:04.740 first i just want to thank everyone for your incredible participation this evening

01:19:08.660 uh i think i can summarize my comments by what like said by just saying you know

01:19:13.140 i think this group here is the group that needs to decide our candidates

01:19:18.820 the teachers to ensure open transparent and democratic process thank you

01:19:28.020 mr jackson you have the right of the ball

01:19:32.500 thank you dave jackson edmonton city center at the drop of a hat the justice minister can bring

01:19:38.180 and build up the legislature and change the electoral laws the chief electric officer can

01:19:42.420 reinterpret the laws the courts can interpret the laws the rules of the game change and if you go

01:19:51.860 and make the rules of candidate selection constitutional that means we have to come

01:19:58.260 back to this room and vote changes on a constitutional level potentially even moments

01:20:06.900 before an election campaign that's why you need the board to be empowered to set up the rules

01:20:13.700 thank you mr jackson uh again a reminder 75 required to pass all those in favor please raise

01:20:22.980 your yes card. Opposed, if any. Motion is defeated.

01:20:39.700 We'll move on to Governor's jurisdiction number six now.

01:20:45.780 varsity and that we have a table and a roll from the proponents

01:20:52.500 governance resolution 723 hello my name is dean fall over vp policies for

01:20:58.260 county varsity this policy is put forth by rca and supported by our board

01:21:02.740 it is ranked importantly as an important topic for the ecd to consider at this 8am

01:21:07.780 mla is currently ex-official to the ca board ex-official means because of their office

01:21:13.140 they are on board since my definition they are members they should be able to have a fellow or

01:21:19.380 to vote as a member so if it shows not that somebody does not have the rights to please

01:21:24.660 as an elected or appointed member this policy proposal recognizes and places members like the

01:21:30.580 rest of us they should not be penalized because their job like the rest of us this policy affords

01:21:36.740 all members to be recognized as having equal rights to have their say this policy is fair

01:21:42.340 and reflect the grassroots nature of ucp to allow all members to have a voice

01:21:48.020 join me in voting yes to this policy thank you

01:21:56.020 gortol guinnessville sylvan lake this is a very important issue actually this is about

01:22:00.820 the separation of church and state the mlas are essentially appointed to their boards 0.97

01:22:07.780 the reason why they don't have voting authority is that it immunizes them from misconduct by

01:22:12.260 that board if they're not voting then they aren't to blame they're able to attend they're able to

01:22:18.100 clearly exert influence we can all attest to that in front of ca there's no need for having them put

01:22:24.100 into a a conflict with the board because they have the power to vote please do not support this thank

01:22:30.580 you i don't see anybody at the yes mike so we will take another speaker in opposition

01:22:42.260 In addition to what Mr. Tolk just spoke about, there are additional concerns regarding our board insurance, which also at times has covered a maximum of 30 voting members on the board.

01:22:55.420 And so allowing 30 grassroots members to be on the board while allowing the MLA to be an influential but ex-officio person on the board allows you to have a full contingent of 30 people within your constituency and not limit the powers of the MLA as the insurance is concerned.

01:23:17.680 Seeing nobody at the yes mic, we will have one more speaker against the moment.

01:23:23.060 I'm fine if this resolution was to allow MLAs to be a voting member, but I don't believe

01:23:32.500 that nominating candidates should be a next official for the entire term of four years.

01:23:38.620 If it's one year, if the resolution was to be reverted, it's just the MLA only, I would

01:23:44.900 probably likely support it, but if not, I urge everyone to vote this one down.

01:23:49.820 Thank you.

01:23:53.060 Calgary varsity like to use their rebuttal seeing no one we will call the question on

01:24:03.420 this this is a governance resolution that requires 50 percent to pass all those in

01:24:08.540 favor and all those against the motion is defeated

01:24:23.060 Okay. Governance resolution number seven is sponsored by Edmonton Glenora. There is no

01:24:32.060 video so we will need a proponent to come to the mic. Edmonton Glenora, please.

01:24:38.060 Mr. Tulk, in the courtroom, we have an equivalent sort of thing.

01:24:55.860 You stand up in front of the judges and your friend, Mr. Price, bangs away for 40 minutes.

01:25:02.060 He's getting nowhere and finally the panel says, Mr. York Slater, we don't need to hear from you.

01:25:07.360 i'm not sure we need to hear from you mr tulk but go ahead anyway i'm sure there's a few people

01:25:16.040 but i'm driven by my vanity um that's a line from james joyce by the way uh driven and derided by

01:25:27.680 vanity sorry um very quickly this is a puzzling resolution frankly when i read it first i said

01:25:33.400 Did Aaron O'Toole write this?

01:25:36.540 This is a much, the way we have it before,

01:25:39.560 it assumes somehow that if we're able to cobble that,

01:25:42.080 if the leader's in jeopardy,

01:25:43.600 if you can form a coalition, he avoids a vote.

01:25:46.880 All we're trying to do,

01:25:48.220 if we don't form a majority government,

01:25:50.080 is have a vote,

01:25:51.100 just like we're probably going to have soon,

01:25:52.500 to clear the air.

01:25:54.780 The party gets the vote in affirmation or rejection.

01:25:58.000 This is part of democracy.

01:25:59.620 Do not support this resolution, please.

01:26:01.480 Thank you.

01:26:03.400 Does anyone else wish to speak for or against this highly controversial motion?

01:26:12.840 Seeing no one, let's put it out of its misery.

01:26:15.980 All those in favor, opposed if any.

01:26:20.500 At least you had the energy to raise your hand.

01:26:23.880 Defeat it.

01:26:33.400 David, over to you.

01:26:38.400 Thank you, Blair.

01:26:40.400 Sorry, David.

01:26:41.400 Before I send it over to you, I...

01:26:46.400 Yes, Vida.

01:26:50.400 Yes, Vida.

01:26:54.400 Those of you who participated last year virtually will recall that through the magic of technology,

01:27:02.400 we brought the AGM to you from a variety of small towns in Alberta and

01:27:11.000 while we're not able to do the same in person I did want to contribute to Red

01:27:20.640 Deer South which is the sponsor of the next resolution David as you probably

01:27:27.660 you probably know, Red Deer's Dog is home to the world's famous RCMP dog service training

01:27:34.100 center, and in the town of Innisfail, and Mr. Telt will tell us all about this in the

01:27:40.820 bar later, you will find the world's largest animated grizzly bear.

01:27:47.780 And so it is with great pride, David, that I turn it over to you for resolution number

01:27:52.820 Thank you Blair. I just had some technical difficulties there so thank you Blair for

01:28:03.200 buying a little bit of time. But on to Governance Resolution number 8. This has been proposed by

01:28:09.980 Red Yourself of course and there's no video that's been submitted unfortunately by Red Yourself.

01:28:15.920 yourself so we'll go to the floor for speakers in favor of the motion if read yourself is here

01:28:28.700 would you like to speak to the motion go ahead sir

01:28:38.940 hi uh jason stefan mla for right to yourself um the reason uh we have this uh motion or this

01:28:48.140 amendment is that uh with the uncertainty we had with the current agm or sorry leadership review

01:28:55.820 timing we wanted to make sure that the timing of the leadership review was such that if the

01:29:02.540 membership felt that it was in the best interest that there was a change that there would be time

01:29:07.980 to have an orderly transition a leadership race and give the party enough time to rally behind

01:29:14.700 the successor leader yes mr mo and cow grief uh let's go with edgemont again um so just simply

01:29:29.660 as the replacement it has been it's far too wordy and as we are witnessing right now if the

01:29:36.380 membership wants to speak the membership can speak through their constituency associations

01:29:41.340 22 CAs, as we just affirmed, that's all you need.

01:29:44.700 So speak through your CAs if you want a leadership review and have your CAs do the work of the grassroots.

01:29:50.880 Thank you.

01:29:51.240 Why are we so afraid of a leadership review?

01:30:15.240 Anybody say yes, Mike?

01:30:21.240 We'll go back to the no mic.

01:30:24.240 Mr. Tull.

01:30:25.240 Mr. Tull, Kinnisville, Sylvan Lake.

01:30:30.240 Unless I'm a fan of James Joyce, I'm almost as big a fan of Hemingway.

01:30:35.240 Hemingway would not have written this resolution, I can tell that.

01:30:40.240 And if I had a lawyer and I'm paying him by the word, I'd be pretty upset.

01:30:43.240 No offense to Jason.

01:30:46.240 But three years is fine.

01:30:48.240 We've got other things within our policy book

01:30:50.800 where if we need to have an extenuating circumstance

01:30:52.920 that triggers a vote earlier than that, we can do it.

01:30:55.520 We're possibly right in the middle of that process.

01:30:57.980 There's no need to get into a garbled, frankly,

01:31:01.340 and easily litigated resolution.

01:31:03.540 Thank you.

01:31:11.980 It is pretty close to liar.

01:31:13.540 uh write a rebuttal to read yourself

01:31:19.380 sir and and i um i didn't write this but uh you know and there's some good comments there i i

01:31:30.820 would say though that it would be nice uh frankly that structurally we had the built-in accountability

01:31:39.060 on the leadership review process that did not require constituency associations to force it.

01:31:47.280 I think regular governance on a timely schedule that's predictable is in the best interest of the party.

01:31:57.640 We'll proceed to the vote now.

01:31:59.680 Again, a motion requiring 50% in favor to pass.

01:32:03.980 All those in favor, please raise your cards.

01:32:09.060 and those against the motion is defeated I quickly checked yes calling someone a

01:32:22.660 lawyer is unparalleled entry acceptable phrases are scoundrel rascal and my

01:32:31.560 personal favorites, Caliway. We move to governance resolution number nine, Calgary Hayes, no video.

01:32:44.360 Do we have someone? Yes, ma'am. Vanessa Sayers, Calgary Hayes. The rationale for this resolution

01:32:54.120 is that provincial board members should have an understanding as to the management of the UCP

01:32:59.800 and with that understanding they are then in a position to be of help with ca and provincial

01:33:05.240 development this creates for proper succession planning for both on a ca board and the provincial

01:33:11.560 board this also eliminates board members from becoming passive members with zero input

01:33:17.800 thus picking up their share of the workload thank you

01:33:29.800 I'm long overdue since Quirt's been hogging the mic. I served on the provincial board

01:33:53.760 of one of the legacy parties and I got asked to do that. I'd been previously a CA board

01:33:58.800 member but had not been for the year prior and i ended up serving in a specialty capacity as

01:34:05.280 treasurer of one of those legacy parties and i think if this passed it might have been debatable

01:34:09.520 whether i could have fulfilled that role and uh i i don't think we should we should bring that in

01:34:15.920 we should allow the uh the members to vote democratically on the board members who seek

01:34:22.480 office I very much understand the concerns of the previous speak but this is about commitment this

01:34:42.400 is about are you really part of this are you gonna be part of your constituency are you gonna earn

01:34:46.300 the right to be a board member instead of being parachuted into a meeting and people couldn't

01:34:51.200 you out of a lineup because you're somebody's relative let's require at least a year's worth

01:34:56.000 of dedication to be eligible to get onto the board thank you hello calgary elbow um uh i

01:35:11.840 personally can't see many certain areas where that that fit mr talc scenario where somebody's going

01:35:18.080 to be picked at to serve on the board of the provincial party because they're somebody's

01:35:21.920 relative i think we have a more robust membership than that that being said a person can contribute

01:35:27.520 huge amounts of time to this part without necessarily fulfilling the specific prescriptive

01:35:32.480 position of serving on a constituency association board they may be unable to do that for professional

01:35:36.880 or other reasons i don't uh abide by this kind of gatekeeping and i don't think it's a good

01:35:42.000 motion for grabs party hello Christopher Moe and Calgary Northwest I just I'm just here to say we

01:35:52.000 finally got Gord talk to say yes to something I've been waiting for her to say that and I've

01:35:57.440 been waiting for three years and and more to the point here I started this about four years ago I

01:36:02.420 spent two years on constituency boards and now I'm provincial level you learned the ropes you

01:36:08.180 have to learn the ropes in order to present and make decisions for the whole province

01:36:14.580 so i encourage you to vote yes to this and uh thank you yes sir

01:36:23.140 cameron wilson edmonton southwest i just want to point out that there have been a lot of very very

01:36:28.660 good board of directors members of our board of directors who would not have qualified under this

01:36:34.740 policy it doesn't make sense to reduce the possible pool of good board members in this way

01:36:40.820 when we don't know what may inspire somebody who's qualified to be on the board so i encourage you to

01:36:46.900 vote this down hey mr wilson uh work for you miss here if you wish no all right we'll call the vote

01:37:00.580 all those in favor please sir you're holding up a couple of people are

01:37:09.040 holding it up red I have to count it as green if you're holding it up now all

01:37:16.640 right those opposed please it required 75% is not close

01:37:30.580 On to governance resolution number 10, which is an amendment proposed by Calgary Northwest to the standing committee list that will require a 50% threshold to pass. And we have a video from Calgary Northwest.

01:37:46.080 Hello, I'm Anna Burke and the Vice President of Policy for Calgary Northwest.

01:37:55.840 The Standing Committee list provides for the Party Policy and Governance Committee's broad

01:38:02.880 mandate which impacts the entire membership, yet only the Vice President of Policy and

01:38:10.400 secretary are elected our 2020 motion established that at least two committee members must reside

01:38:19.680 in each of the five regions our new motion would replace appointed by the board with elected at an

01:38:28.480 agm by the members who reside in the corresponding regions it is in our best interest that the ppgc

01:38:38.160 demonstrates more openness transparency and accountability to all of our members across alberta

01:38:52.960 we're talking sylvan lake first off um i can't express my gratitude to ann she's an absolute

01:38:58.560 stalwart on the pbgc which i also serve um but with all due respect uh it's hard enough to get

01:39:07.040 people to sit on the ppgc now to have us go through electoral process to do that i think we might fail

01:39:12.960 and have a ppg said it literally is non-functional because it can't meet the requirements outlined

01:39:18.240 in addition the council is elected i'm looking at one right now they are elected they are

01:39:24.560 accountable for the people they put on the ppgc if it fails hold them accountable thank you

01:39:37.040 thank you unlike other committees the PPGC is unique it's the engine that drives every

01:39:55.400 annual general meeting as well as the planner it is not open or transparent to the membership

01:40:04.520 In the Conservative Party of Canada, the regional reps of the Constitutional and Policy Committees are elected with a fair and impartial process.

01:40:18.360 Now our party can ensure that the general members who are most directly accepted will finally have a say. Thank you.

01:40:27.280 the right of rebuttal, however. Mr. Mullen. Hi there. Chris Mullen, Calgary Foothills.

01:40:34.160 Great respect to Anne. You know, I owe you so many beers for disagreements that I lost at PPGC.

01:40:41.520 But election PPGC does the work of the board. All of our product goes to the work of the board.

01:40:49.200 The board yays and nays it. If the board doesn't like it, then you have to adjust to the board's

01:40:55.280 work and we cannot have a situation where you have elected members of ppgc and elected members

01:41:01.600 of the board and they're fighting against one another so please vote no one more

01:41:11.520 the proponent and i did my rebuttals so debate ends

01:41:25.280 I can personally attest that the role of the PPGC plays provincially is very different than

01:41:42.060 what the role of the elected members of the national policy and constitution committees

01:41:46.560 play federally. And I'm greatly concerned that at the provincial level the way things

01:41:51.280 are defined if we allow this to go through we are going to create a slippery slope where we have

01:41:55.920 people who are trying to advocate for policy rather than to be facilitators that we desperately need

01:42:01.840 on that committee they are very very different i love you and i respect you

01:42:07.440 miss burke you do have a right of rebuttal now if you would like to use it thank you the standing

01:42:15.760 policy committee provides for the party's policy and governance broad mandate which impacts the

01:42:25.680 entire membership however at least 15 members of the committee are generally unknown to the group

01:42:35.440 and i as a member experienced that firsthand i think we need reform and we need reform now

01:42:44.480 so i hope you will support our resolution thank you we will now call the question

01:42:52.400 all those in favor of governance resolution number 10 please raise your cards

01:43:00.640 and those opposed the motion is defeated

01:43:13.920 Governance resolution number 11 is sponsored by Athabasca Barhead Westlock, where you will find the beautiful town of Smoky Lake, recognized as the pumpkin capital of Alberta and home to the legendary annual Great White North Pumpkin Fair.

01:43:37.920 Watch closely in the video and see if you see the pumpkins.

01:43:43.920 Good evening, I'm Ted Forge, Vice President of Policy for the Athabasca Board, Westlock

01:43:50.260 Constituency Association.

01:43:52.260 We've made a governance resolution number 11 to present to the AGM.

01:43:58.740 It is about the leadership review and it's a replacement resolution to replace paragraph

01:44:06.080 3.1.

01:44:07.080 There's been a lot of controversy going on in the last year about when the timing

01:44:12.360 of a leadership review should take place the intent of this resolution is to shorten the

01:44:17.400 time frame between the elections for when we would hold a leadership review our intent is

01:44:22.920 to have a leadership review held in that shorter time period between elections but at a regular

01:44:31.560 annual general meeting as an ordinary course of business rather than than triggering a special

01:44:38.120 general meeting so we would really appreciate the support for this resolution in order to clear this

01:44:43.800 up and tighten up that time frame all of these leadership selection resolutions that have come

01:45:03.240 to this agm i speak to an awful lot of grassroots members i don't stay connected to the rest of the

01:45:12.360 party structure very much but what i'd like to say is if we're going to start applying these

01:45:19.320 particular requirements upon upon our leader i want to see the same policies apply to every single

01:45:26.200 mla elected by the ucp please

01:45:35.480 city no one in the s mic over to you mr talk

01:45:38.440 gorge holkinsville sylvan lake on a different vein

01:45:42.200 um the three-year rule is fairly clear and concise we could have a situation

01:45:46.200 where we would have a vote at 15 months after

01:45:49.240 we had just won an election and not have another vote until after

01:45:53.160 the next to next election three years seems reasonable and and it would be essentially we'd

01:45:58.120 be put be a lot closer to the um how do i put it um we would have a much shorter timeline or distance

01:46:04.760 to find distance between each vote please support keeping it the ways now and voting against this

01:46:10.520 thank you are you for the right of rebuttal sir or are you going to speak to the motion

01:46:20.360 anyone else to speak for the motion we'll go back to the no white oh sorry we have run to the mic

01:46:30.620 hi there Harrison Fleming Edmonton Center I just want to say that it seems to me odd that a

01:46:44.180 a grassroots movement would want to say that a fewer number of people are willing to say

01:46:52.100 that the leadership of our party doesn't matter and the literally million

01:46:59.940 of Albertans who voted for our government that their voices don't matter either

01:47:06.500 So instead, what we should be doing is making sure that when we have your voice matters a lot, we ran out of time.

01:47:18.500 Well, let me finish really quick.

01:47:20.220 You know, rules are rules.

01:47:22.460 What can I say?

01:47:23.220 We're conservatives.

01:47:24.960 Fair enough.

01:47:32.540 Your passion is noted, sir.

01:47:34.860 Thank you.

01:47:36.000 final no over here yes sir zach moyer calgary mccall you know it seems everyone is ignoring

01:47:46.960 the elephant in the room it's all about leadership but the funny thing is that the same people

01:47:53.440 want to take over the leadership or the people who want to hold on to it the minute that they

01:47:59.280 get in a position of power they want to use every rule in the book to hold on to that power and if

01:48:06.240 you think that anyone else will do anything different from what our current situation is

01:48:14.160 i'm not holding my breath

01:48:18.000 um final rebuttal i'm sorry sir if you want to speak you've got to come to the mic

01:48:23.680 yes sir pete plowman um at baska barhead westlock so the rationale behind this was to avoid the

01:48:33.440 controversy that we're talking about right now this is the third motion or the third resolution

01:48:40.400 already tonight that talks about leadership review obviously it's an important issue that

01:48:45.440 needs to be dealt with this resolution simplifies it in our constitution there's already

01:48:53.920 a requirement for leadership review this just makes it so that it's not in the first year

01:48:58.800 and not in the last year it has to be somewhere in between so you can't leave it right to the very end

01:49:07.360 we are ready for the vote 50 required to pass all those in favor please

01:49:15.440 okay we'll move on to governance resolution number 12 which has been proposed by Calgary

01:49:39.320 Beddington as an amendment to the constituency association rules we don't

01:49:44.960 have a video for you folks so if Calgary Beddington and the proponent wants to

01:49:51.920 speak in favor please make your way to the microphone and seeing nobody wanting

01:50:02.600 if you read this resolution it doesn't look like a resolution the language is

01:50:14.360 all messed up frankly I feel sorry for the person who put it forward I wish

01:50:19.100 we'd have caught it earlier and help them with it just basically saying a

01:50:23.000 chair is more appropriate use of the of the running of board groups such as such

01:50:27.220 as policy is frankly not something that should be in a government's document

01:50:32.420 Please do not support this.

01:50:33.880 Thank you.

01:50:39.240 Yes, Mike.

01:50:40.320 So we'll take another no speaker.

01:50:45.860 Hi there.

01:50:47.300 Chris Moen, Calgary Northwest, Chief Financial Officer.

01:50:50.500 The role of the CFO is the second in command.

01:50:54.240 It's not written in there that they are the second in command.

01:50:57.100 However, if the President is unable to officiate their duties,

01:51:01.520 that role falls to the CFO. So again, the rules are already in there for a second in command.

01:51:09.520 Thank you.

01:51:14.040 Yes, Mike, we'll take one final. Mr. McLeod.

01:51:17.780 Mr. Price, thank you for indulging me. Steve McLeod, Calgary Curry. The problem with this

01:51:22.900 resolution is that it wants to institute the word chair in replacement of vice president.

01:51:28.060 unfortunately the word chair also already has a predefined definition you can have a chair of a

01:51:34.940 meeting and is not necessarily the president of the ca in certain circumstances so i think this

01:51:39.900 only adds to the confusion rather than reducing it as this motion intends thank you thank you sir

01:51:48.300 if calgary bennington would like to use their right of rebuttal they've got the opportunity for that

01:51:53.740 I've seen nobody making their way to the yes Michael call the question this will

01:51:59.680 require a 50% threshold pass all those in favor those opposed the motion is

01:52:09.580 defeated well now that I know that the CFO is the second-in-command I

01:52:27.020 I may demand the title of my house, which will at least be ahead of the door.

01:52:41.220 Resolution 13, we have a video.

01:52:44.940 Hi, I'm Jason Bischoff and I'm an Edmonton Region Director on the UCP Party Board.

01:52:52.700 This year, a candidate selection rules document has been submitted by members for inclusion

01:52:57.320 in the party rules.

01:52:59.160 This resolution seeks to officially add the candidate selection rules document to the

01:53:03.460 governance manual so it can be modified by our members.

01:53:06.940 If this resolution passes, members will be able to add and modify candidate selection

01:53:12.300 rules at an AGM or an SGM.

01:53:15.260 If it does not pass, candidate selection rules will remain under the purview of the board

01:53:19.540 of directors.

01:53:21.360 This resolution also clarifies

01:53:23.440 that the association's constitutional documents

01:53:26.240 are limited to the policy declaration

01:53:28.280 and the governance manual.

01:53:30.360 This clarification only affects documents

01:53:32.900 that relate to neither policy nor governance

01:53:36.880 and future additions could still be made

01:53:39.440 by explicitly amending article 10.1.

01:53:42.940 Please vote in favor of this resolution

01:53:45.240 and put candidate selection rules

01:53:47.300 into the hands of our membership.

01:53:51.360 Do we have a speaker again? Yes, sir.

01:53:57.920 Brian Bates in Calgary Mountain View. So there's a couple practical things here. There are a lot of things that are necessary in the candidate selection process that maybe CAs don't have the ability to do themselves.

01:54:09.260 that require resources, things like candidate vetting and the sort, and that's obviously

01:54:17.340 very important. And furthermore, elections are very in-the-minute, in-the-moment kind

01:54:24.160 of things, and things happen, and so if we have a set of rules that doesn't address something

01:54:29.080 that happens, then that creates a great problem for the party going into an election. I'll

01:54:33.740 also just say this isn't really grassroots because it deletes but not limited to which

01:54:41.340 means that the members don't get the choice they have to and i don't think that's very fair

01:54:47.500 we're talking it's real sylvan lake there are not a lot of resolutions that only have

01:54:52.460 two words and that have such great import than than this one does this essentially does give

01:54:58.300 of the grassroots through the AGM process,

01:55:00.780 the ability to set and then to redefine

01:55:03.760 and change how candidates are selected

01:55:06.440 and nobody else gets to fix those rules

01:55:08.940 or fool with those rules.

01:55:10.220 This is a very vitally important thing.

01:55:12.460 We need to get straightened out.

01:55:14.320 What that governance,

01:55:15.240 what that selection rules book looks like,

01:55:17.300 that's another story,

01:55:18.220 but we need to get this on the book

01:55:19.520 before we can do the second thing.

01:55:20.800 Thank you.

01:55:24.800 Edmonton city center.

01:55:25.960 I'm going to invoke Margaret Thatcher on the European Union.

01:55:30.200 No, no, no.

01:55:33.220 Candidate selection rules need the flexibility to be able to deal with changes in law from the justice minister,

01:55:42.940 reinterpretations by the chief electoral officer, and interpretations from the court.

01:55:47.700 You can't be calling a special general meeting every time the laws change in order to change your constitution.

01:55:55.960 and on top of that on the next resolution there's a poison pill

01:56:01.440 michael bears of calgary glenmore you've all had one of these put on your table

01:56:14.780 this is the first step in order to get a candidate selection rules on books that we as members can

01:56:24.160 alter and amend as we go forward in time right now we don't have one it's very important that

01:56:31.200 we get the 75 pass of this particular special resolution so that we can then

01:56:39.200 get a candidate selection rules document available to us for voting thank you

01:56:45.280 Mr. Jackson, it appears there's no one else at the mic, so you could finish if you'd like.

01:57:01.400 There is a poison pill coming up in the next resolution that I will get to.

01:57:15.280 With the greatest respect for Mr. Jackson, I understand what you're saying, but in this case, the ideal of having our members actively participate in the selection of our candidate selection rules over, in my mind, is more important than having the amount of time to go back.

01:57:45.280 time law changes which doesn't change very often I think that it's more of a

01:57:50.460 moot point thank you please support this this is a special resolution 75%

01:57:59.260 required to pass all those in favor please

01:58:11.260 opposed

01:58:21.260 we do it one more time please all those in favor

01:58:25.020 and opposed to the city's meeting motion is defeated

01:58:44.060 number 14.

01:58:55.020 Thank you.

01:59:25.020 I don't blame them my only chance I got a microphone

01:59:36.520 just I think you guys have already figured this out that point resolution

01:59:50.400 Number 14 is a considerate of 13 passes to move on to 15.

01:59:55.400 That is correct.

01:59:56.400 My understanding is that we don't want to use a path on debating on

02:00:01.400 number 14.

02:00:03.400 Understanding that it will not take effective passes, but more so to

02:00:08.400 whole membership on whether they like what they see in that resolution

02:00:13.400 and the board may consider to adopt it in part or in whole.

02:00:17.400 That's my understanding of that,

02:00:18.400 they'd like feedback from the members on that.

02:00:21.460 So we do have a video to roll from Calgary Glenmore

02:00:25.000 on governance resolution number 14.

02:00:30.520 I'm Mike LaBerge with Calgary Glenmore.

02:00:33.100 Governance proposal GR 14

02:00:36.020 is a candidate selection rules on this document

02:00:39.540 that requires a simple 50% approval threshold.

02:00:44.200 With your approval,

02:00:45.140 this CSR will be included in the governance manual,

02:00:48.900 which will allow us as members to amend at future AGMs.

02:00:54.260 Currently, the party does not have a set

02:00:55.980 of candidate selection rules.

02:00:58.120 If we don't approve one,

02:00:59.940 a candidate selection rules document,

02:01:02.220 it falls to the party board to create the rules

02:01:04.700 for members and CAs.

02:01:07.060 We all need a set of candidate selection rules

02:01:10.120 to start planning selections for next year

02:01:12.720 in advance of the 2023 provincial election.

02:01:16.200 I encourage all members to vote yes

02:01:19.280 for GR14 candidate selection rules.

02:01:22.900 Thank you.

02:01:30.240 This is just a straw poll, if you will,

02:01:32.500 for lack of a better word.

02:01:33.500 This will not be something that can be implemented

02:01:35.320 by the board after the fact.

02:01:37.060 This is going to be a non-binding.

02:01:39.800 So the board can't subsequently say

02:01:41.540 So we're going to adopt that back.

02:01:55.920 We're talking against it.

02:02:00.000 Not so much the concept.

02:02:01.840 I'm very much in favor of us actually setting down these rules in a very concise and detailed manner.

02:02:07.460 but if you flip through the document online because it's so long they couldn't put it in the book

02:02:13.220 um there's just too much in there to try and pass all at once i think we need to go through

02:02:17.860 on a piece by piece matter with maybe a special convention on this process and slowly and

02:02:23.300 determinately ratify each piece bit by bit by bit because you're never going to get an omnibus this

02:02:28.020 big past thank you okay thank you mr talk and i i just wanted to point out in your booklets um

02:02:38.100 there is reference to the omnibus resolution on page 16 of your booklet and it refers to the

02:02:43.460 addendum a on page 50 of your booklet if you want to look at that for sir at the desk microphone

02:02:53.860 michael bears glenmore uh to be clear this document slightly modified

02:03:02.100 was approved with a 68 approval rate at the 2020 agm it did not and was not considered because

02:03:12.580 like this year the sr4 does not pass and putting the name into the governance manual so the board

02:03:20.980 has a document on the website that removed most of the references to the local candidate nominating

02:03:28.740 committees in the candidate selection rules so therefore the board does have the ability

02:03:36.260 i can use hand language sorry no the pain

02:03:38.260 great thank you uh dimitri nicoleides mla for calgary bow uh just reading through the candidate

02:03:51.060 selection rules that are being proposed on pages 50 to 57 and i have significant concern with what's

02:03:57.940 contained on page 57 primarily section 12.2 it essentially gives the party governing committee

02:04:08.900 the ability to remove the entire local nominating committee and all of its members which i think is

02:04:14.660 highly problematic and anti-democratic and grassroots thank you thank you mr nicholas

02:04:22.100 we can go back to the yes mike mr laverge if you want to

02:04:27.940 candidate selection rules document is the only document that is missing in our portfolio of

02:04:36.340 documents for members to actually amend or send or add to in as members that we have the ability

02:04:45.320 at an AGM and it can only be done if a document is in that governance manual so that's why it's

02:04:55.380 important to get one in there so we can make the changes and get on with get on with the rest of

02:05:01.240 our business as far as a political party. Over to the no mic for the last speaker against Mr.

02:05:10.220 Moen. Hi there, Chris Moen, Calgary Foot. This is an omnibus one. I've been to a couple of these

02:05:16.540 or a couple of these AGMs. Typically speaking, AGMs do not like omnibus resolutions. They're

02:05:23.740 just too complex to go through uh for various reasons uh i would invite mr laverge come on

02:05:30.840 pgc we've been talking about this as to how we get major pieces of legislation through

02:05:36.960 in terms of add to our bylaws completing the necessary work we have a pass or we have a way

02:05:43.940 through there is a right of reply for calgary glenmore if you'd like mr laverge or you can

02:05:51.020 way that I think we were all very anxious to hear what that poison bill

02:05:54.620 was going to be about but unfortunately we can't get any more no speakers mr.

02:06:00.020 LaBerge would you like your report thank you mr. LaBerge and we'll call the

02:06:07.780 question on the non-binding governance resolution number 14 so all those in

02:06:12.320 favor please raise your cards and those opposed and that motion is 15 sponsored

02:06:34.040 by Calgary Beddington there is no video do we have a proponent from Calgary

02:06:38.860 I would Blair and I'd also like to congratulate you and Dave on a job well

02:07:07.600 done again tonight as we're coming close to the end. It's called sucking up to the chairs.

02:07:14.620 The night is young and the weekend is barely done. Thank you. So I need to speak to you. 0.71

02:07:20.320 This motion, this would first of all create complete inconsistency in our bylaws which is

02:07:25.040 unacceptable because it already lists the CFO as the second in command and this does not strike

02:07:30.320 this out. And there's a very important reason why the CFO is second because according to the

02:07:35.000 elections act there are two people that signed the charter of a CA that is the president and the CFO

02:07:40.920 they are directly accountable to elections in Alberta for the conduct of the CA

02:07:45.100 Thank you.

02:08:15.100 is the final resolution of the evening, so you will want to pay close attention.

02:08:24.480 And we are on to Governance Resolution No. 16.

02:08:31.180 Our CA resolution was to provide the party with a formal constitution.

02:08:36.420 It consists of just six simple articles based on Roberts' rules of order.

02:08:40.460 Three of them are key.

02:08:42.600 principles these are those highlighted on our website but will include the amendments from

02:08:48.280 tomorrow's policy session governance simply place states that the associations bylaws

02:08:54.760 and associated documents apply no governance document is touched amendments 66 and two-thirds

02:09:01.880 percent this is the lower of the two options provided by roberts rules and that's it according

02:09:08.200 According to Robert's Rules, only a majority vote is required to adopt a constitution of

02:09:12.720 a new society. Ours is that. We have received no amendments. It's time to have a party with

02:09:19.160 a constitution. Thank you.

02:09:21.720 Thank you for that video, Mr. Warnock and Calgary Glenmore. I just want to point out

02:09:28.440 that there is an omnibus resolution here. You can find it at Addendum B, which is on

02:09:33.520 page 58 of your booklet to read it in full.

02:09:37.760 But now we'll go to the no mic, Mr. Tull.

02:09:41.540 Mr. Tull, can I spell so, Mike?

02:09:43.140 My book only goes to page, oh yeah, okay, it's there.

02:09:50.460 The reason why I oppose this, and listen,

02:09:52.220 I am in awe of people who put the effort in

02:09:55.240 to write these kinds of rules.

02:09:57.680 It's no picnic, and I don't take pleasure

02:10:01.300 in speaking against it.

02:10:03.140 But omnibus resolutions are endlessly problematic

02:10:05.840 because there's a word here, there's something there.

02:10:08.800 It's kind of like, with no apologies to Nancy Pelosi,

02:10:12.900 you gotta vote for it in order to read it.

02:10:15.620 And we just can't pass something without having

02:10:18.100 a much more thorough process of ratifying it.

02:10:20.940 Thank you.

02:10:23.940 We'll go to the yes mic.

02:10:26.440 Hi, Mike Laberge, colleague with Rob Warnock.

02:10:29.640 One of the brightest minds I know

02:10:31.420 far as putting these kind of material together and robert's rules and that i give them all the

02:10:36.620 credit now this particular document let's face it we have a bunch of documents we do not have

02:10:45.020 a constitution somewhere here we have to come up with a constitution real quick raise the hands

02:10:51.980 how many actually read the document in the booklet that's our problem right there

02:11:07.420 brian bates in calgary mountain view i'm going to echo mr talk in a little bit different way

02:11:12.780 my favorite regularly introduced piece of legislation in the united states congress

02:11:17.020 is the read the bills act which would require everybody to read the bill before they vote on it

02:11:21.900 clearly that is not the case here so if you don't read it let's not vote for it

02:11:33.740 yes thank you i agree that uh should have been read by everybody and it's not a very difficult

02:11:40.380 document at all a very very few uh items on it and it is uh simply just using what the

02:11:49.900 roberts rules of order states in creating a governance document

02:12:00.380 i did not think i was going to be up here one more time rob i'll buy you a beer we've been

02:12:04.140 debating this since the founding agm in 2018. the fact of the matter is the registrar has accepted

02:12:10.540 our documents as completely legal and constitutional in their current form they may be imperfect but

02:12:16.220 but they are perfectly fine as is.

02:12:18.500 We do not need to upset the apple cart right now.

02:12:28.780 Yes, they're legal,

02:12:29.720 but I wonder about a United Conservative Party.

02:12:33.400 Hardly.

02:12:36.180 More undisputed, and I am in this deep problem too,

02:12:42.120 is because we're not very united, as many of you are.

02:12:46.220 but there's one area of unity where we are strong,

02:12:50.980 the fundamental principles on which the party is based

02:12:54.360 and which you and I have joined.

02:12:57.300 I have assembled these principles into a constitution

02:13:00.740 that flies above prior bylaws, the leadership reviews,

02:13:04.860 the policy.

02:13:05.860 Thank you, Mr. Horton.

02:13:06.700 Unfortunately, you're over time.

02:13:07.620 Okay.

02:13:08.460 vote on this now just a reminder that this resolution has been determined to have a 75%

02:13:19.340 threshold to have 75% passed so we will call the question all those in favor of promotion

02:13:29.020 those opposed the motion is defeated

02:13:36.540 well folks i think that's it that's the very last resolution class is dismissed and

02:13:46.020 we'll be back at 9 15 tomorrow morning so get some rest or have a drink with some old friends

02:13:54.720 that you haven't seen in a while it's been a pleasure thank you very much ladies and

02:13:58.020 gentlemen. Good night.

02:13:58.780 Good night.

Western Standard - November 20, 2021

Live： UCP AGM - The fight from the floor

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