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Those reputed 1,000 bold ideas translated into an advance guard of just 54 policy resolutions, of which 18 were debated in the order prioritized by the 1,300 or so delegates.

Fourteen were adopted as party policy, though there’s no guarantee that even those will make an appearance in the party platform, never mind be translated into legislation by a future B.C. Liberal government.

First up was a much-debated call for the government to “create a legal framework to allow ridesharing in B.C.”

This idea was so not-unique and un-fresh that, as its mostly young Liberal advocates noted, Metro Vancouver is pretty much the last jurisdiction of any size in North American that does not already enjoy the otherwise ubiquitous Uber ridesharing service or its equivalent.

The motion passed overwhelmingly, by a margin of four to one, in a strong rebuff to the government’s pandering to the powerful taxi industry. But far from being galvanized into action, the Liberals still seemed to be in thrall to the industry.

“I feel no more pressure than I felt before, quite honestly,” said Peter Fassbender, the line minister in charge of foot-dragging on the issue.

The second motion on the floor was a back-to-basics call for the K-12 education sector including an “immediate ending of the practice of passing students to the next grade when they do not have the foundations of their current grade sufficiently grasped.”

Not what I would call forward-thinking or even all that original. But it carried the day with 60 per cent of the delegates.