Globe and Mail (Full Article) BRIAN LAGHI OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEFStephen Harper's Conservatives have put their candidates on election footing by scheduling a campaign training school for March, in time for a possible vote after the next federal budget.
Party officials and candidates were informed of the conference, to be held March 15-18 in Toronto, in an e-mail from Jenni Byrne, a senior adviser in the office of Mr. Harper's chief of staff, Ian Brodie.
Candidates and local officials will be asked to attend a number of tactical training sessions. They include a candidate preparation seminar, which would include everything from how to dress to preparing for an all-candidates debate. Typically, candidates are asked to assimilate the party's policies and told about how to deal with the news media.
Other seminars include how to bring out the vote on election day and how to use a voter identification tool called the Constituent Information Management System, a database used by the party to store information on individual voters. The information is assembled through personal phone calls and door-to-door canvassing and is used to send out targeted messages to potential voters.
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