{"id":3168,"date":"2011-10-19T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2011-10-19T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:36:00","slug":"tous-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3168","title":{"rendered":"Tous Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Cullen shakes up the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/in-leadership-news.html\">Mulcair-Topp cage match<\/a> with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/ndp-leadership-hopeful-pitches-joint-nominations-with-liberals-greens\/article2205165\/\">interesting idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">His plan would be to let grassroots members of the three parties [Liberals, NDP, Greens] decide in each riding currently held by the Conservatives whether they wanted to hold a joint nomination meeting. If they agree, all parties could run candidates at that meeting and all card-carrying members of the three parties would get a vote, but only the winner would go on to run for a seat in Parliament under the banner with which they ran in the nomination. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something like this is <em>a lot<\/em> more realistic than a full blown merger. It at least deserves consideration, since the death of the per-vote subsidy removes some of the incentive for parties to run kamikaze candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I question how many ridings would actually agree to a proposal like this. From a pure game theory perspective, there&#8217;s no incentive for the Greens to participate since they&#8217;d never win a joint nomination. Similarly, I can&#8217;t see Liberal and NDP members agreeing to an open nomination unless they were both convinced their candidate could win it &#8211; that likely limits this to a dozen ridings coast-to-coast. Even if things made it that far down the track, the logistical nightmare of a joint nomination meeting might be too much to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>Cullen himself admits the Liberals and Greens are unlikely to go along with his plan, and he&#8217;s probably right. But good on him for putting the idea out there for debate. I&#8217;m a staunch anti-merger Liberal, but even I concede it&#8217;s worth at least <em>considering<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Cullen shakes up the Mulcair-Topp cage match with an interesting idea: His plan would be to let grassroots members of the three parties [Liberals, NDP, Greens] decide in each riding currently held by the Conservatives whether they wanted to hold a joint nomination meeting. If they agree, all parties could run candidates at that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}