7. 2013-H Membership requirements for FIDE-rated events (Bond/McKim) -commentary only

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Originally Posted by Vladimir Drkulec

One should also look at basic fairness. We are not providing any services to these players who play in foreign FIDE events and so we should not be asking to earn any revenue.

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We may not be providing any services but we DO pay a fee to FIDE for having them active and if we did not pay that fee, NO Canadians would be allowed to play in FIDE-rated events.