Originally Posted by
Don Parakin
I asked Bob Gillanders about this. He said many years ago, his predecessors did keep the FIDE rating field up to date. Then they just added a link on the chess.ca site, using the players FIDE id, to link to FIDE web site which has the player's latest FIDE rating. It was just too much work keeping an up to date copy of FIDE ratings locally. Years ago, Bob deleted (set to zero) most of the ratings in the CFC's tdlist.txt file. He said you are the first person to notice/request this (most, I guess, use just the CFC ratings).
FYI, the .mde file does not have the FIDE ratings either. This would be a new requirement. Swiss-Manager / Swiss-Sys get FIDE ratings from FIDE.