Braeden Caley, the Liberal Party’s director of communications, said all events will now be publicly accessible, posted at least three days in advance. Michael Ignatieff, under whose leadership the Liberal Party was cash-strapped, recalled in his political memoir Fire and Ashes the effect of Conservative attack ads. Perhaps it was memories of those unhappy days that prompted the increasingly desperate sounding emails coming from the Liberal Party last week. The most immediate explanation was the temporary hiatus of major fundraising events. It remains to be seen if the very public Liberal fundraising events will have the same appeal to well-heeled donors that the cozy private affairs had.

Source: National Post May 03, 2017 22:52 UTC