Three weeks ago, I filled out the on-line request for a membership in the Liberal Party.
Have I got a membership form?
Nope. Apparently, some people agree that I should never join a club that would take me as a member.
Ah, somethings never change...
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Hey! I've had the same experience. I filled out the on-line form in December, then again in January.
I wonder if an on-line donation will be processed?
Ok, I'm calling the Ottawa number...
Ok,
The toll free number for joining the party:
1-800-361-3881 (or 416-921-2844)
You have request an application form from the Federal side, and then ask to be transferred to the provincial side to request a form from them if you want to join both.
They really have to work on that website; I'm going to suggest it.
Ok - enough grief already.
The Ottawa office (and therefore its website) has no constitutional authority to deal with membership applications. The party is a federation of ten (oops 13) bodies each with their own memberhsip rules.
Does this suck?
Yes - absolutely.
But any of us who ever tried to change it to a national set of rules were called power hungry and dictatorial.
If you don't like the way memberships work, don't blame the national office. Go to the Provincial wing of the federal party. That's where the power rests in our constitution now.
(Robert - call LPCO not OLP)
But hey, confusing enough for the average joe who just wants to join, isn't it?
PS - I know that Canadian Publius knows this as well as anyone...
Yikes, what "a hit the nerve day..."
If the national party has no constitutional power to distribute membership, what's it doing on the freaking website?
And no, I had not thot of the provincial wing of the national party angle.
-a
I think I get the picture... the national office probably intended to distribute the collected information, but wasn't, or at least wasn't doing so efficiently.
When I spoke with them, they gave me the number for the Ontario Provincial organization (the LPCO); they inturn have two groups (desks, offices, cubicles?) who take the information for joining the LPCO and/or LPO.
Anyway, my apps. are in the mail...
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