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Conversation with Mr. Samuel Moisan-Domm
To clarify, with CMD, no General Meetings are needed to approve policy. Instead, there would be policy workshops, say 1 hour on Zoom on a given policy, where interested members would discuss, debate and amend (friendly only) the proposal. Once the Party has about 8-10 proposals that have gone through WeDecide + Zoom Workshop, there would be an online vote by all members.
This process will be way more efficient than having to hold a General Meeting each time we want to adopt policies, with all its requirements (we spent about 6 hours getting through the procedural stuff only!). In other words, with CMD, we can expect 3-4 all member votes per year with dozens of workshops if needed.
Again maybe what I was seeing in the slideshow is old information that will certainly be changed/updated after this meeting? : https://wedecide.green.ca/pages/proposal-process
General Meeting
The General Meeting is a formal Meeting of Members, where the members gather to make decisions on matter of importance to the Party. During the general meeting, members are the highest decision-making authority in Party governance.
Each Official Proposal is presented to membership for consideration of adoption by the Green Party of Canada.
If applicable, proposal submitters will present friendly amendments for consideration.
Members will discuss, debate, and potentially amend the Official Proposal. Once this process has concluded, a deciding vote to adopt the proposal will be held by all members present at the time of the vote.
If time at the General Meeting runs out before every Official Proposal can be presented, the Official Proposals that were not discussed are sent back to the Workshop on the WeDecide platform so they can continue to be worked on and considered at the next General Meeting.
Pretty much had been my assumption, so what did the slideshow say to steer me otherwise?
In this proposal it's seems clear that online functions would replace GM. G23-C006 Continuous motion development process for constitution and bylaws This could be resolved if we could view the slideshow outside the meeting.
ok there is this text in the package : Although policy proposals were included in the general meeting notice, a motion to adopt a continuous motion development process in which policy proposals are submitted, debated,
amended and adopted in a vote open to all members _outside of a general meeting_ will be
presented at the 19thAnnualGeneral Meeting
and G23-C006 says As things stand, while motions concerning GPC policies do not have to be approved at a general meeting, Directives and Constitutional Amendments do. Removing this requirement from our constitution will make it easier for members to amend bylaws and constitution and remove processing bottlenecks associated with general meetings.
So was that slide show bit as to what happens without G23-C006 passing? If I could re-read the slideshow I could see where I may have misunderstood the first time.
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