Quote of the day
”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”Martin Luther King
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EDITOR’S COMMENTS
This quotation has some extra significance for my Canadian readers who have been following the latest Annual General Meeting of the CFC , which ended just the other day. During this disgraceful meeting not once did any of the governors directly raise the question of the legality and constitutional legitimacy of the proposed CFC-FQE agreement that was on the table.
One or two indirectly broached the subject, but never to challenge the chair or to insist on the subject being properly addressed. As a result, the agreement passed without either the necessary discussion nor the legitimate protocol that such an agreement require at the very minimum…
Were the governors afraid to challenge the chair? Why were the governors afraid? Canada is a country founded on rule of law. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms begins by stressing this exact point. The CFC is an officially incorporated organization–legally recognized as such by the Canada Corporations Act– with a constitution that must be complied with in every legal sense. Every official decision of the CFC must be in some way validated by the consititution or permitted by the constitution.
Were the governors afraid to challenge the chair? Why were the governors afraid? Canada is a country founded on rule of law. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms begins by stressing this exact point. The CFC is an officially incorporated organization–legally recognized as such by the Canada Corporations Act– with a constitution that must be complied with in every legal sense. Every official decision of the CFC must be in some way validated by the consititution or permitted by the constitution.
Those in the CFC leadership, and no doubt some others who have worked behind the scenes, have suppressed the right and obligation of the governors to question the legality and constitutionality of their actions in this process–either thru intimidation or unbecoming means– and they have done their fellow citizens a grave injustice. But mostly, they have behaved in an un-Canadian fashion.
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS