The notion of Liberals sticking with free memberships for anyone 14 or older, and non-permanent residents, just seems like yet more wilful self-sabotage

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It’s far from the craziest thing about the current state of federal politics, or of the Liberal Party of Canada specifically, but it was still amazing to see someone from the party asserting that Liberals intend to head into their woefully ill-timed leadership campaign under the same rules, if they can be so called, that they adopted in 2016.

Not all Liberals agree with this approach, which is at least a sign of life. But they have mere days under the party constitution to alter the rules, and that’s not nearly long enough if they want to get it right. Almost anything might be better, though, from the party’s perspective than the status quo, in which joiners don’t have to pay any money, needn’t be citizens, and can be as young as 14 years old.

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With foreign interference........

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