Ken Craft:
I'm torn. I don't support the reduction of Governors but the Presidential candidate I'm leaning towards does...
Eric Van Dusen:
Hi Ken,
I acknowledge that you are torn.
Let us consider a number of aspects of the issue:
Are the needs and desires of chess players relatively homogenous or hetrogenous on a regional basis?
Do we truly need one representative per 20 players?
How many of the CFC governors are acclaimed versus being elected?
How unwieldy is dealing with 50 versus 25 governors?
What to do about the 50% of governors who do not regularly contribute comments, ideas, or even vote?
In my humble opinion, I just do not see the actual democratic process working all that well right now or the even in the recent past.
The CFC has turned a corner and unencumbered ourselves from the ball and chain of deficits. It's time to heal what ails the organization, become healthy and strong and damn it, get out there and promote the game we love throughout Canada and the world!
My campaign is fundamentally about inviting interested people to volunteer in whatever capacity and use the CFC organization to support international chess, provincial chess, local chess, youth chess, senior chess, and whatever chess anyone can imagine.
I hope I can count on your support. It is only one specific issue.
Examine the past performance of the incumbent who sought a legal opinon that basically communicated to the CFC governors that they are nobodies that cannot be trusted with the relevant information to make significant decisions.
Examine the motions brought forward by the incumbent that want to streamline and consolidate even more power centrally to the CFC president.
Examine the budget and the updated financial reports. Was it ever really true that the CFC could not afford the team led by Bob Gillanders?
The only conclusion that I can draw is that the incumbent David Lavin wants run the CFC in the identical manner as for-profit business.
In my opinion, one cannot run the CFC as business, and the converse is true, one cannot run a business like the CFC.
I am fundamentally promising a new attitude,a new passion, a new vision, a new way of making decisions so that all volunteers have the confidence, and possess a true and real ownership of the CFC so that they will be enthusiastic about volunteering in whatever capacity at whatever level: local, provincial, national, and internationally.
Yours faithfullly,
Eric Van Dusen