Coming on the heels of reading this post over at Bowie, we decided to take a quick look at the major party websites.
The NDP have this link featured prominently on their main page.
The Conservatives have this link, and the fact that it's two years out of date shouldn't be overlooked, nor should the delusional hilarity of the fact that they claim in the link that 'they understand the financial crisis,' when 'they' were the ones claiming everything was just A OK as it was unfolding.--- Again, yet another example of a talking point we should be using but aren't.
The Green's have this link.
The BQ also have a prominent listing, but no one link to their policy section.
This means that the only major Canadian political party to not have a policy section are the Liberals.
But it gets worse.
Our lack of vision and lack of direction means we're trailing The Christian Heritage Party and the Progressive Canadian Party.
In fact, based on our website, the party the Liberals most closely resemble in policy and priorities right now is the Marijuana Party of Canada. And you really do need to click that link to see what we mean...
The Liberals might be undergoing a major policy review and development phase, but that doesn't excuse the current situation. The fact that we don't have a policy link on our main page says a lot.
I agree to a point. I think the webmasters at liberal.ca could have at least set up a page where official or unofficial policy-related things were archived and easily found by visitors. It's not that we don't have ideas out there already, despite the review that's going on, it's just that we haven't organized them properly. This might be a good suggestion to pass on to the OLO.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I wouldn't necessarily go by whats on party websites as their "commitment to policy." I know for a fact that the CHP and PCP's "platforms" are very outdated, and the PCP website has been updated in months. At least liberal.ca is consistent and strong in sending out press releases and nabbing our attention. I consider this more important pre-writ than a link to a platform-to-be.