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He said the amendment is not intended as a personal swipe at McIver and it will be up to the party’s board of directors to decide if it applies to the current acting leader, he said.

But Traptow acknowledged the resolutions addressing the acting leader position do indicate a level of discomfort among some party members with the current situation.

“Clearly, when you have an interim leader who has not ruled out one way or the other whether or not they’re going to run, that does present some problems,” he said.

“Some people can say that they have an unfair advantage.”

Traptow — who also wants constituency association presidents to have a say in picking future interim leaders — said he sees both sides of the issue. He noted there were no parameters on McIver when he took the job, “but by the same token I’m not sure we knew he would be interim leader for this long.”

The Calgary-North West resolution is one of two that would prevent an interim leader from running, while other submitted resolutions would require an acting leader to resign the post once a race was underway if they intended to be a candidate.

McIver said Thursday there is a wide range of opinions in the party and he didn’t take the resolutions personally.

“A great thing about our party is people can bring forward anything they want and we’ll talk about it, it will be debated and that’s how we set policy,” he said.

McIver, who finished second to Prentice in the 2014 leadership race, said he still hasn’t decided whether he will run for the permanent leadership when it comes open.