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Pierre Dénommée has sent me the following message. I have deleted the Wavepoint Consulting URL for model bylaws which doesn't appear to work anymore. I agree that we will have to individually vote...

I have been doing my best. The major snowfalls of the last week or so put a crimp in things though that may be offset by the exercise shovelling snow. Once the weather gets nicer I will probably do...

I am sorry for being AWOL last night. I have been fighting a muscle strain and/or a possible pinched nerve that has been causing a great deal of pain and consequent disruption of my sleep patterns. ...

Thank you for the vote of confidence. We still have some work ahead of us but I am optimistic that we will get this done at which point we will be able to move on to new challenges like becoming a...

Quorum is 15 governors. If we can't get that many we would really have to rethink what we are doing.

At the moment I don't have the forum permissions to close threads so I will ask you to do so on my behalf.



Yes, I am very happy with where we are at the moment relative to where we were before...

My inclination is to continue this meeting for a few more days, continuing with our discussion of the NFP act. At the end of the meeting I hope to have a good idea of what we want to proceed with...

Any confusion on my part is the result of occasionally contradictory advice within the government publications. At one point the website says we are not required to submit bylaws with the initial...

The relationship between the CFC and affiliates definitely needs to be codified but I don't want the continuation of the CFC to hinge on each and every affiliate having their own ducks in a row. I...

Pierre Dénommée has sent me the following message:


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This is the plan. There are only a few life governors so I don't see this as being a big issue.


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I think they should...

My reading of the act seems to indicate that voting membership can be conferred any way which the voting members or directors decide including but not limited to a recognition of donations of money,...

Yes, I believe I do. Certain sections are irrelevant to our current situation. Other sections are no longer required by the government. Almost everything has to be rewritten to conform to the new...

My thought on how this might go forward is that we will submit to the governors a stripped down bylaw which will be consistent with the new NFP act and will be largely (I hope) uncontroversial. It...

The implications of this model special resolution are that our old general operating bylaw is to be repealed.

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/cs05012.html

Special Resolution of Members

Continuing the Corporation under the provisions of the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act and...

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/cs04965.html

Annex A
Provisions in Letters Patent and By-laws Superseded by the NFP Act
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Because the old Act contained few...

Pierre makes a couple of points.



So far I do not see where the new legislation says this but I will take a closer look.



It seems to me that Pierre is right on this which means that...

No, there is no provision to put that in. The new financial year starts the day after the old one ends.



The financial statements can be posted online. I don't believe that you can limit...

Giving them a non-elected vote for life has already been done. The NFPA does not allow for "Honorary Non-Voting Members For Life (unelected)" and trying to add such a class would be a problem as...

As far as I can tell Ottawa is not dictating that the life governors are to be history. Having an unelected (whether by the voting members or executive) past president on the board is not allowed. ...

They are currently life governors. To eliminate them might require a two thirds majority vote of the life governors in addition to a two thirds majority of the governors as a whole under the new act...

I don't think at this point that we need to lose the life governors. They can't be on the board of directors but I don't see anything in the legislation which says that they can't be voting members....

For the most part they are the defaults suggested by the new legislation with some minor tweaks to pay homage to our current practices. If there are any additional steps required for sporting...

The colour is meant only to highlight the two separate bylaws as separate items for discussion. The first part of the one in blue is the default law on discipline under the new NFP act with minor...

Pierre Dénommée has indicated that, "The newly elected board can appoint the past president. At most 1/3 of the directors can be appointed by the Board of Director after the voting members have...