Whether on purpose or design the Wildrose Alliance policy resolutions was announced by the Edmonton Journal's Capital Notebook blog earlier this week.
The policy process has been an long journey which started with submissions from the general membership and finishes with the membership evaluating the importance of the policies. The final process heading into the June 24-25 convention is for the general membership to evaluate the policies as they are about to be put forward.
Using this process the party will be looking to strengthen their policy changes by getting an idea about which policies will have traction with their members.
This latest process will probably help the party avoid some of the bitter fights about the policies that have happened in the past. Often in previous policy processes the fights over policy were where splits and confrontation took away from the event.
The annual general meeting, coming next month, the party hopes will be a seminal event in Alberta. There will be national media in attendance so the opportunity to show the party with as a grown up government in waiting.
The party has been working hard to get the membership excited about the annual general meeting. One way they are trying to do that is through sending out letters to the members encouraging as many as possible to attend.
If the Wildrose can get over a thousand people in attendance it would certainly be a strong show of strength. In front of the national media, and Albertans, the party hopes it will go from being a place for those unhappy currently to park their opposition to being the alternative in Alberta.
Hard work and preparation along with Danielle Smith's communications ability makes this an important opportunity.
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