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.
Racism
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Series consists of records relating to constituency development and election readiness including such issues as creating, developing and organising constituency associations and choosing and preparing candidates for election campaigns.
- Subseries consists of subject files pertaining to constituency development and election readiness, likely maintained by departmental office staff.
- Includes election planning and strategy files, constituency administrative manuals, campaign manuals, survey reports, correspondence, presentation material, reports, clippings relating to candidates, candidate information packages, regional organizers’ meeting minutes, election reports, nomination meeting guidelines, reference manual on election law for candidates, advertising plans, petitions for registration of the Reform Party, writ timelines, and other related materials.
- 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.
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.
Series consists of records relating to the initial 1998 production of the play "Single and Sexy," and later to"SEXXXY" first performed in 2002. Records include audition notices, rehearsal schedules and performance schedules, brochures, original 1997 script of "Single and Sexy," script with approved changes, and scripts for "SEXXXY," promotional materials, budgets for production, comments from student evaluations of the performances, 35mm colour slides of the 1998 performance, a VHS videotape of the 2002 performance and DVDs of the 2007-2009 performances, CD-Rs include production music, production notes, PowerPoint presentations (Sexxxy 2007, 2011), jpegs, logos and other graphics used in performances.
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’.
Series consists of videotapes in various formats that contain recordings of events pertaining to the Reform Party of Canada.