Originally Posted by
Pierre Dénommée
For every dollar received by the Province, the FQE does spend $1.40. This requirement from the Minister, that the FQE generate its own revenues streams, is what prevents it from sending $36 per player to Ottawa. The FQE cannot collect $1 from the Province and spend an equal amount. If the FQE was to abandon the membership and the FQE rating fees, it would loose its recognition by the Minister. Those two sources of income are mandatory, not accessory. Off course, new revenue streams could be developed, but that takes time and those incomes must be recurrent each year.
With the situation as it is, nobody should expect the FQE to send to the CFC any amount of money that would make the FQE looks less competent in the eyes of the Minister.
Having a permanent office and a phone line would be quite an asset for the CFC. Recently, a member of a FIDE Commission called the FQE instead of the CFC because she couldn't find the CFC telephone number. The subject of this call, a possible irregularity at the NAYCC, was far from trivial.