Once I asked a then-Governor about the general public not being able to find out about the CFC, even if they were interested in playing chess.Originally Posted by Bob Gillanders
His reply was "Come on. With a little thought they could google the words 'Chess Canada' and the CFC website reference would pop up on the first page".
Quite often, evidently, people don't go out of their way to think that deeply. They may assume there is no organized chess in Canada. The CFC needs to be more proactive.
Assuming there isn't the money for a major city newspaper advertising campaign, how much could the CFC afford to print up x brochures and mail them to citizens at random (or have them posted in public buildings)? That's the sort of thing a membership committee would need to know from the Executive before recommending it as an action to take.
Another thing would be to establish whether a membership committee can get approval from the Executive to have the office impliment at least some committee recommendations, without needing to have them voted on by the Governors.