When we launched this race on November 14, 2012, we let all Liberals know that participating was as easy as 1-2-3. Sign up. Register. Vote.
Step 1 was completed by 294,002 Canadians who signed up as Supporters and Members before the March 3 cut-off.
Step 2 has been completed by 100,015 and counting who are now registered to vote.
Step 3 begins when voters’ unique PIN arrives via Canada Post between March 25 and April 6, 2013. Voting instructions will arrive with the PIN.
Voting online and by telephone opens nationally April 7 at 12:01am ET and closes on April 14 at 3pm ET. The results will be announced on Liberal.ca on April 14 at 6pm.
However there are many who are still in the process of registering to get to Step 2. I am now extending the registration period until March 21 in order to ensure that as many Supporters and Members as possible can vote.
Please share the news about this new deadline with anyone you know who has not yet registered. Share buttons are just below.
In just a few short weeks, the first one-member/supporter-one-vote of its kind in Canadian political history will take place.
Thank you to all those who are taking a stand for the Liberal values they believe in. By casting your vote, you will take Canada one step closer to change.
Thank you.
Matt Certosimo
National Membership Secretary
Liberal Party of Canada
I got an email from Matt C this evening telling me I was registered. My husband and daughter did not get any notification although I know they registered. Is there a list somewhere we can check against?
You are going to be so busy trying to reach and register new supporters I don’t want to use up your time with members.
Hi Mary,
Our Registration Team looked into it and it seems that your husband and daughter have both unsubscribed from our emails. That’s why they did not receive a confirmation email.
That said, I can confirm that they are both registered and ready to vote for our new Leader.
I haven’t received the how-to-register email either. It’s a bit surprising how poorly this process is being executed – could it be that the Lib establishment doesn’t really want widespread involvement in the selection process? Does it indicate priorities that there’s a great big “Donate now” button (which works fine), but not one for “Register now”?
Hello Mark,
I assure you that the goal of this whole process IS to engage and involve as many Canadians as we can.
The Registration Team has informed me that we have two emails for you in our files. The registration notices were sent to your mcmaster account so I encourage you to check that inbox.
According to our system, you should have received every message that was sent. For a complete list of those messages, with date sent, sender and subject lines, see http://www.liberal.ca/leadership-2013/registration-help/.
Let me know if the messages are not there and we’ll take care of your registration asap!
that’s right, I’ve received none of the emails listed on the registration-help page. Curiously, I _have_ received “collateral” messages that would have been triggered by registration – the first was:
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 05:11:52 +0000
From: “Mike Crawley, Liberal.ca”
Subject: Leadership starts with you, friend
Message-ID:
I registered as a supporter using my gmail account, and that’s where this message showed up. similar for other non-registration messages such as from candidates and my local riding assoc. I also examined raw mail server logs on my mcmaster host, which show nothing from liberal.ca – though I suppose mcmaster’s central MX might be unhappy with your messages in one way or another. though I don’t know why my mcmaster address would be used for any of this…
if you’d like to perform tests, please contact me directly.
Thanks for the feedback. We’ve updated your record and set your gmail as the preferred email. The next registration notice will be sent tomorrow so keep an eye out for that one and let us know if you don’t receive it.
The Liberal Party ‘brain trust’ (rotflmao!) opened the leadership selection up to people with absolutely no stakes in the outcome. They may as well have stood on the street corner asking strangers to pick their next leader!
So, instead of selecting someone with gravitas, brains and knowledge, they’ll select The Breck Girl.
Meanwhile, Garneau falls on his sword a full month before voting begins because a poll he commissioned said that most people who hadn’t bothered to even register to vote thought Trudeau was their Canadian Idol. (sigh, he’s soooo dreamy!)
Marc Garneau need to get back into the race.
Challenge The Breck Girl to a few one-on-one debates and start playing hardball instead of cricket with tea.
Because Trudeau can only lead the Liberal Party to its final, pitiful demise.
Actually it was the LPC MEMBERSHIP that voted to add a new supporter class and allow all non-party affiliated Canadians a say in the LPC leadership. Not any behind-the-scenes ‘brain trust’. If you would like to learn more “facts” about our party … just ask, many here would be happy to dispel these inaccuracies for you.
We believe that every Canadian has a stake in the outcome of this contest. Strangers on street corners included. We are, after all, the party of inclusiveness not divisiveness.
I have no idea who “The Breck Girl” is, so I can’t really comment on that except to say that all of our leadership candidates are intelligent, dedicated professionals determined to rebuild the party and lead us to victory over the conservatives who are ruining Canada and the NDP who will, if given the chance.
Marc Garneau ran a good campaign and was a worthy candidate, but felt that he could not win. May I ask how much you personally donated to his campaign effort? How much campaigning you personally did for Marc? If you did, I am sorry that those efforts did not bear fruit. If you didn’t – well maybe that was Marc’s problem, not enough grass-roots support.
But it is interesting that you appear to have so much respect for Mr. Garneau but none for his decision to drop out and none for his decision to support Mr. Trudeau. It is a shallow supporter who only supports when it suits his needs.
And finally, there will be no demise of the Liberal Party. The complete failure of the CPC to lead Canada economically and bring balance to the fiscal, social and environmental needs of Canada combined with the lies, deceit and gross inexperience of the NDP will assure that.
But hey, thanks for your input Johnny Liberal! Love the name – try and live up to it!
this isn’t really the place for a discussion of candidates’ merits.
the interesting thing to me is that some people are comfortable with a leader simply being the designated hitter, and others want the leader to be a sort of team captain/owner. I don’t think JT is quite as lightweight as a hair model, but I’m also quite comfortable with him as the point man. I regretted MG dropping out simply because many people assume this means he no longer seeks a voice (and I thought a lot of his ideas were sensible). Yes, obviously if MG or JM won the race, their policies would have greater prominence, but IMO a leader is obliged to either incorporate all good ideas or convince VOTERS why those ideas are wrong. in other words, the party leader should not be modeled on Harper’s example (captain/owner/final authority).
for instance, if JT wins the race, that should not mean that the idea of cooperation is dead.