I've been in contact with Ignatieff's campaign team in Alberta over the past few weeks.  There has been what is for me an uncomfortable attempt to change the Ignatieff leadership camapign team into a sort of a permanent election readiness team for the province.It's uncomfortable for a couple of reasons.  First, despite the perceived electoral benefit of portraying Michael Ignatieff as de jure leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, he's only de facto leader until the nomination deadline (at the earliest).  Which means that the leadership team must remain a leadership team.I think there's an opportunity to take an uncontested leadership and turn it into an opportunity to make substantive improvements to the structure of the Liberal Party of Canada, and Ignatieff's quasi-leadership campaign would be an excellent vehicle to do that.  It would also serve as a salve against the affects of liberals in Alberta again having their opportunity to contribute to our national politics reduced.Which brings me to the second discomfort: there are real, good reasons for liberals in Alberta to be interested in leadership races in the LPC.  They have a lot of power in those races.  There are not real, good reasons for liberals in Alberta to get involved in federal campaigns.  Because we can't win here, not as we're currently operating.  So the only motivation would be practice.So I feel as though I'm being asked to continue in a procedure that is doing something relatively meaningless, failing to do something meaningful, and asking me to do something that is pointless until the meaningful thing happens.Did that make sense?  Probably not.  Whatever.  What I'm saying is that this seems like a better use of my time.