Adam Goldenberg and the Liberal Movement

Freedom and fairness.  Equality and sustainability.  If these are the touchstones of Canadian liberalism, then they should be the ideological benchmarks by which (small-l) liberals judge the (large-L) Liberal Party, its leader and its policies.  They should be an intellectual starting point for the kind of movement-party relationship that conservatives and Conservatives now enjoy - and that Jason Kenney may soon symbolize - with an ideological movement that sustains and attracts support for a political party, not the other way around.

I would certainly agree with this - in fact, I've been nudging in that direction for a while now.

The Tragedy of the House of Commons

My Idea of Canada

The Conscious Society

Why the Political Right Should Fear Open Data

Canadian Liberalism and the Successful Society

Trudeau and the Just Society Redux

Putting a Polish on True Grit

The Party That Listens

This could be a renewed Liberal Party, or a series of somethings new.

A National Mental Health Strategy

As for who in liberaldom has the capacity to pull a Kenney and champion the movement and social change over partisan fortunes, who knows.  We'll see who emerges for this role in 2014.