Subseries consists of video recordings of the proceedings at the Reform Association of Canada’s 1987 Assembly, the Reform Party of Canada’s assemblies and the United Alternative Party’s national conventions, including coverage of opening and closing ceremonies, speeches by the Party leader, keynote speakers and other Party officials, seminars and workshops, ballots, Executive Council and caucus question and answer periods, dinners, galas, and assembly or convention highlights.

Series consists of records relating to the communications function required by the Party to inform its officers, staff, members, candidates, Members of Parliament and the general public about the Party’s activities.

Sub-subseries consists of various publications created by the Party as means of informing members and the general public about the Reform Party, its policies and its activities.

• Subseries consists of video recordings of interviews given by Reform Members of Parliament and others on a variety of topics and in various locations. Includes interviews with Preston Manning, Sandra Manning, Stephen Harper, Val Meredith, Stan Waters, Ezra Levant, Paul Martin and others.
• Topics include such issues as the 1993 election results, immigration, Ottawa youth conference, racism and sexism, Canada’s constitution, Triple E Senate, fiscal restraint.

Fonds consists of correspondence, chiefly with various government officials and politicians; and reports, speeches, immigration literature, pre-emption maps and newsclippings relating to British immigration to Canada.

Series consists of records relating to the process of developing Party policy through investigation of a variety of issues and the establishment of “task forces”, communicating policy resolutions to the Party membership for consideration at Assemblies, and publicizing policy positions to a wider audience via a variety of media.

Subseries consists of records relating to policy and the development of policy by the Reform Party. Includes the Party’s Blue Books (the principles and policies of the Party that were passed at Assemblies by Party members), briefing handbooks on Party policy for candidates (Quick Facts and others), Reform caucus policy development manuals, correspondence and memos relating to a variety of policy issues and to task forces, draft resolutions, minutes of some task force meetings, policy publications produced by the Party, reports, speeches, and files relating to the review and amendment of the Party constitution.

• Subseries consists of video recordings produced by the Reform Party to advertise and promote itself.
• Includes television advertisements used during the 1988 and 1993 election campaigns, promotional videos incorporating speeches by well-known Party officials, coffee party/dessert party videos of events used to promote fundraising and membership, advertisements promoting specific Party campaigns and programs (ie “Stop the Digging”, “Fresh Start” etc.), and other such items.

Subseries consists of published materials created by the Communications department for both internal (i.e. Party officers and staff members) and external (i.e. Party members and the general public) audiences.

• Subseries consists of subject files created and used by communications staff during the course of their responsibilities. Records pertain to such issues as communications strategy, elections, by-elections, referendums, expansion eastward, regional conferences, fundraising, federal budgets, agriculture and the environment, and electronic resources.
• Includes correspondence, news articles, planning documents, schedules, surveys, news releases, planning documents for broadsheets and brochures, biographical information regarding Party MPs, speeches, and scripts for advertisements and ‘infomercials’.

• Subseries consists of records relating to the task forces established by the Party to investigate specific policy issues.
• Includes terms of reference, task force membership lists, preliminary and final reports, feedback to preliminary reports, research materials, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, submissions, progress schedules, and Executive Council ballots on task force reports. Also includes Task Force Administrative Guidelines that provides information to Party officers on how to establish and administer a task force.

Series consists of videotapes in various formats that contain recordings of events pertaining to the Reform Party of Canada.