| Subject: Rebuilding The PC Party - A Plan |
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Michael Watkins
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Date Posted: 20:54:52 04/23/03 Wed
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Jim Prentice today released his comprehensive plan for preparing our party for the critical coming months.
The following is merely a summary from the document. For the full text, visit:
http://jimprentice.org/en/policy/rebuild.html
Rebuilding the Progressive Conservative Party
Executive Summary
Jim Prentice has a plan for 100 Days of Growth to prepare the party for the critical months of fall 2003. His top priorities are entering the House of Commons, seeking candidates to run for the Party, building coalitions with other Canadians, and raising the money we need to win the next election. Survival is not our goal; the status quo is not our strategy. Our goal is to win the next election. Period.
"After a reasonable period of time, I am committed to meeting with representatives of the Canadian Alliance and Bloq Quebecois to explore if there are ways we can work together that are acceptable to their parties, and acceptable to ours. This will be carried out in a spirit of respect and consensus building, respecting the best interests of the P.C. Party."
- Jim Prentice
Fundraising
Jim Prentice pledges to bring no campaign debt to the party. The fundraising team he has assembled for his own campaign demonstrates his ability to raise funds for the party. As Leader, he commits to spending 40% of his time on fundraising, meeting with Canada's corporate leaders, small businesspeople, and individual donors, with a goal of increasing ten-fold the fundraising activity of the party.
Jim Prentice has a ten-point plan to raise the necessary funds. That plan includes challenging the constitutionality of Bill C-24 which seeks to limit corporate funding, an aggressive corporate campaign, a regional fundraising structure to help riding associations, riding level fundraising over the summer, and contingency plans to prepare for a post Bill C-24 world.
Reinvestment in Party Infrastructure
Jim Prentice identifies five top priorities for immediate reinvestment in the party's infrastructure. They are
1. field offices and field staff to support the volunteer structure of the party;
2. communications and recruitment initiatives to support riding associations and provide incentives for membership;
3. support for the youth wing, particularly in the critical fall campus recruitment period;
4. support for the party's volunteer governing infrastructures so that volunteers have the tools they need to contribute effectively; and
5. rebuilding the party's rainy day and special circumstance contingency funds.
Our party infrastructure must reflect the excitement, ideas and energies of our members.
Election Readiness
Three immediate steps are required:
1. the Leader must immediately name a Campaign Team that will take steps to prepare for the next election; including a by-election team that will identify potential by-elections, ensure adequate funding, candidate recruitment, and other preparations.
2. candidate recruitment must be a high priority, especially reaching out to more women and minorities, and will require the Leader's personal involvement;
3. Policy Advisory Committee Co-Chairs need to be named early, a policy process implemented, and plans laid for an early 2004 policy conference that should double as a National General Meeting.
The above is merely a summary from the document. For the full text, visit:
http://jimprentice.org/en/policy/rebuild.html
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