Toronto Star: That spring campaign saw the party subjected to internal criticisms over how senior officials cherry-picked a number of candidates; something that is permitted under the party’s constitution, but rankled members who felt the grassroots — and prospective candidates — were ignored, poorly communicated with, or shut out from races after starting their campaigns.
“What (that) mainly achieves in the end is to anger and disillusion the lots of very hard-working Conservatives on the ground in their own districts associations. So it’s very much in the interest of the Conservative party that we improve all the things that didn’t go so well last time,” said Iain Provan, the chair of the constitution committee for the Burnaby North-Seymour EDA or electoral district association…