If they want to anger no-one and rake in a few votes from boosting local businesses that is. Their earlier plan to hold the convention in Vancouver is apparently under re-consideration as Ottawa and Quebec City are rumored to be throwing their hats in. If the rule of bad news coming in packs needed proving, the Liberals leave no room for doubts.
Their decision, whatever it may be, will result in losses or at least in no improvement for the party's standing. Sticking with Vancouver will upset Quebeckers and at most result in some lifting of Liberal fortunes, gains which time and pre-election campaigning will weather away. The root of Liberal problems is not in Quebec, thus holding the conference in Quebec City would do the party no good either east or west of the Outaouais. Ottawa is, for obvious reasons, saturated with politics and politicians' business. Furthermore the town's political connotation may lend a Liberal convention the perceived aloofness and absence of touch with the rest of the country that is confining the "natural party of power" to the opposition benches for the foreseeable future.
By all means the convention should be held in Vancouver: a change of plans is exactly what the Tories are waiting for to demonstrate that Liberals don't care. The LPC needs, however, to address the deeply rooted malaise that is rotting the party from the inside. Where to undego this surgery should be the Liberals' least concern.
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