Ontario Liberals are gathering this weekend and one of the main items on the agenda is setting the stage for a leadership race.
The party's annual general meeting in Hamilton is set to be the largest in 20 years, the Liberals say, with 1,500 people expected to attend.
The delegated convention held the following year – where delegates represented groups of members during voting – saw Steven Del Duca selected as leader, but he resigned after the Liberals did not win enough seats in the 2022 election to have official party status at the legislature. It was the second election in a row with that result.
"I strongly believe that giving each party member a direct say in the selection of the next leader puts us in line with the Liberal Party of Canada and other modern democratic political parties worldwide," she wrote in a statement. Delegated conventions are big, dramatic affairs, but they have also fallen out of favour with most other political parties, including the federal Liberals. They decided in 2009 to end delegated conventions and were the last federal party to do so.
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