“…Increasingly, the party leadership wants to be able to control who the candidate is, as opposed to having the local party members making that decision.”
“…There’s a mostly secretive process going on in the background that will determine who is going to speak for the residents of the five Thompson and Okanagan ridings in the region in the next federal parliament and most voters will have no part in that process. Constituents can only vote for the candidate the Party has chosen.