The 2024-2025 nomination process is not the only example of National Council's reluctance to be accountable to the membership who elected it. It's only one instance of a more general, problematic pattern.
For instance: National Council has not in fact engaged in “direct regular communication … to electoral district associations and members to ensure accountability," as the Constitution requires (6.1.2).
One important aspect of this failure is that it has typically not provided, as required, “the minutes of each [NC] meeting to all electoral district associations … within 30 days” (8.9). Between September 24, 2023 and June 14, 2025 National Council achieved this goal on only two out seventeen occasions - a significant pattern of disregard for a constitutional imperative designed to promote accountability. For if no-one knows in a timely manner what National Council is doing, how can anyone possibly hold it accountable?
It comes down to this: if one of our tasks as delegates to the Calgary Convention is to evaluate National Council's performance since Quebec City 2023 - and it absolutely IS one of our tasks (7.6, 8.17) - then it’s very clear that its performance has been less than stellar during that period.
What we need now, moving forward, is a National Council comprised of members who fully understand its constitutional role as a primary governance body within the Conservative Party and are determined to see it robustly fulfil that role. This intrinsically involves rigorous adherence to all the provisions of the Constitution, including those that protect the rights of its electoral district associations and their members. Click here to find out more about my plan to fix what is broken.
Click here for a chart illustrating the time-lapse between National Council Meetings since the Quebec City convention and the issuing of the minutes of those meetings.