June 9-11, 2011
Ottawa Convention Centre
About 2,400 delegates and observers gathered in the nation's capital, with some 80 policy resolutions and 48 constitutional amendments on the agenda one month after the party's election victory.
Conservatives rejected resolutions on:
- the “normalization of prostitution”;
- automatically stripping citizenship and charging with treason any Canadian citizen who takes up arms against Canada, the military, or an ally;
- giving greater clout in leadership votes to riding associations with more members. Brought forward by Ontario MP Scott Reid, the plan was opposed by Peter MacKay and Michael Chong. Reid and MacKay had a similar disagreement at the party’s 2005 founding convention in Montreal.
