3. President's Welcome

[Lyle Craver]

I would like to extend my greetings to the voting members and spectators for this May quarterly meeting of the CFC voting members. We have a number of discussion items on the agenda as well as a few developments which have arisen since the notice of the meeting went out three weeks ago. The current discussion threads will deal with results for allocation of voting members by province, a discussion of provincial life membership fees, the question of the Canadian Open (which still might take place in August) and discussions which we have entered into with Premium Chess the FIDE chess server. In addition, under new business we can enter into discussion about the disarray in our website at the moment which seems to go online and offline on a regular basis. Lets have a productive meeting. On to the discussions....