Garland I agree with you but in the meantime we have a real time problem. The existing policy vacuum on how to treat FQE members when they play in their first CFC event means that they should be treated as UNRATED and they are obviously not.
Lyle, the expression "in the same manner" means that FQE members will be started at their FQE rating and their CFC rating will be updated in the same way as people with USCF or FIDE ratings. It is a way of including FQE members in this clause without calling them "non-residents"
Paul Leblanc
Treasurer, Chess Foundation of Canada
CFC Voting Member