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.

• Subseries consists of video recordings on a variety of topics that did not correspond with the topics of other subseries in this series.
• Includes such diverse topics as the Liberal leadership vote, the launch of Reforms’ Save Canada Fund, the Manitoba dissidents, nomination meetings, leader’s dinners, constituency BBQs, constituency fund raising planning meetings, native land claim issues, House of Commons proceedings and question periods, youth conventions and youth council media panels, the Atlantic fishery etc.

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.

Series consists of speeches given by Preston Manning, Tom Flanagan, Deborah Grey, Stephen Harper, and others at various events, and by Reform Members of Parliament in the House of Commons. The majority of the speeches included in the series were given by Manning with several versions of the same speech that was given at different locations exist in some instances.

• 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.

File consists of project summaries of the Trail Crew, report on the hiking trail program