[ISL] "P.E.I. Progressive Conservatives will choose new leader in fall 2017"

[rfmcdonald]

In The Guardian, Teresa Wright describes how the perennially divided Progressive Conservatives on the Island are preparing to choose a new leader in a year's time. I have to say, their record over the past decade--at least!--has not been impressive.

The Progressive Conservative party will hold its leadership convention in the fall of 2017.

Party president Pat Banks made this announcement at the party’s annual general meeting Saturday afternoon in Charlottetown.

Banks said this time frame was chosen because it gives the party a full year to identify candidates and organize a leadership convention while also allowing the next leader plenty of time to build support ahead of the 2019 election.

“We also looked at the roadmap plan that the party has developed so that we do have a foundation for the base of the party before we go out for a leadership convention,” Banks said.

This roadmap was presented to the 80 members present at the AGM Saturday. It is a comprehensive plan with specific goals and benchmarks the party aims to achieve on the way to a leadership convention and, after that, to the next election.

One of those goals – to release the party’s election platform “well ahead” of the next election so the public knows what the party stands for, Banks said.

“We simply cannot continue to do business the way we have in the past,” he said.