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Political and Miscellaneous - Audio Recordings - 1993 Liberal Party of Canada Platform Committee [sound recording]

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Date:

30 January 1993 to 3 May 1993.

Reference:

R12583-99-5-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4518545

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Political and Miscellaneous - Audio Recordings - 1993 Liberal Party of Canada Platform Committee
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Date(s):

30 January 1993 to 3 May 1993.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

10 audiocassettes (10 h, 35 min).

Language of material:

English

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The 1993 federal election was held on 25 October with the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) easily winning the election with 41.24% of the popular vote, and defeating the Progressive Conservatives who had been in power since 1984. Paul Martin and Chaviva Hosek had been appointed co-chairs of the LPC Election Platform Committee by Prime Minister Jean Chretien in December 1991, a move often viewed as a strategic way to ensure a continued central Party role for Paul Martin and to help unite the LPC after the 1990 Leadership Race. The LPC platform document officially titled "Creating Opportunity: The Liberal Plan for Canada" became better known as "The Red Book" due to its bright red cover. The platform document was the most detailed ever released by any party during a federal election campaign up until 1993, and was the first to include costing estimates for each of the electoral promises made by a political party.

The audio recordings in this sub-sub-series are of the Platform Committee's meetings of January 30th, March 22nd and 23rd, and May 3rd, 1993, with six of the ten and half hours of recordings being from the all day meeting of March 22nd. The recordings are unedited and were made for reference purposes to allow the Platform Committee to refer back to their discussions in the course of developing their party platform document. The recordings are of particular interest in that they capture much the development process, with the first recordings consisting of the overview of policies on the major issues of the time, differing regional perspectives, and go into the differences in ideologies and approaches of the Liberal Party versus those of other parties. Later recordings capture discussions concerning potential changes and improvements to the evolving platform document, and the final recordings consist of the Committee members going through the draft platform document section by section and discussing any potential factual errors or omissions, the tone of the document, and changes that have already been made from earlier drafts.

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Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R12583] 47357AV--47366AV

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