8B. Provincial Life Membership Fees - Ilia Bluvshtein

[Lyle Craver]

Wearing my "other hat" as Secretary of the BC Chess Federation I would like to note that as the result of a 2012 AGM resolution BC does not currently offer provincial life memberships. (Existing BCCF life memberships were to be honored)

The feeling of that meeting was that Life Memberships had somewhat gotten out of hand as there were (at that time - I haven't checked recently) 70 CFC life members in BC but only 25 BCCF life members. The proponents argued mostly along the same lines as Ilia.

[Paul Leblanc]

I believe the setting of provincial membership fees including life memberships is provincial jurisdiction. Here in BC we do not have a problem with collecting provincial dues from CFC life members. Why is it a problem in Ontario? Are there any other provinces with this problem?