Democracy at the riding level

I have an editorial up today as well on the Ottawa page of Xtra.ca, which accompanies the piece on the Liberal riding association meeting. While the story talked about what happened at the meeting, this piece looks at the significance of joining a party at the riding level, which is something that I'm quite keen on encouraging people to do because that's the part of our democratic system that is the most engaging, and the part that most people simply don't know about. Like I said before, the whole evening was pretty inspiring, and I'm hoping these two pieces help to encourage more people to get involved, whatever their party affiliation.