Originally posted by Louis Morin
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From Kevin Spraggett's blog:
CFC to recognize separate FQE membership status in FIDE!! Worse still, an initial 3-year agreement giving the FQE separate, but equal, rights as all of the rest of Canada in the selection process of all Canadian representatives to all international chess events including the Olympiad, World Cup as well as FIDE Congresses will be ratified without any face to face meeting of the CFC.
This year the CFC has decided not to hold the usual Annual Meeting (AGM) of delegates of the federation. Instead, a virtual meeting will be held via the internet. This is the first time in history that a face to face meeting will not have been held. This also marks the first time ANY national chess federation in the world will do so.
This is particularly worrisome, since the FQE-CFC problem is an intriguing political maze that has defied solution for more than 30 years. Without adequate public discussion of the complex issues behind why the FQE has refused to be a member of the CFC, the current CFC president is hoping to pull off what is in effect a coup d'etat inside the Canadian chess community.
There is the question that the entire process is not only illegal but unconstitutional according to the CFC's own regulations. The CFC represents Canada to the world as a member of FIDE, the international chess body. As well, the CFC sends teams to the Chess Olympiad, World Youth Chess Championship, and other major international events. By now allowing the FQE an equal say in these issues--which no other provincial federation is allowed --and by recognizing the unique right of the FQE to represent ANY french-speaking player anywhere in Canada, the CFC is opening itself to law suits from any and every provincial chess federation.
There are numerous french-speaking communities outside of Quebec--numbering in the hundreds of thousands of Canadian citizens-- and this agreement recognizes the right of the FQE to represent their interests in chess! Has anyone involved in brokering this agreement even bothered to ask them?
Furthermore, any member of the FQE will have EXACTLY the same rights as every other member of the CFC (anywhere in Canada), and will only have to pay 9 dollars a year--which will be generously paid for by the FQE!. Adult members elsewhere in Canada have to pay anywhere between 35 and 40 dollars for the same rights.
All Canadian chess players will be losing if this deal gets ratified, as they will be in effect, subsidizing the FQE memberships while accepting to be 2nd class citizens in their own province! It is expected that sometime in the next 3 years , when the initial agreement will be up for re-negotiation, the CFC will have formally petitioned FIDE for separate FQE membership.
I will keep readers up to date as more information becomes available. Thus far the CFC and the FQE have made sparse the exact details of the deal. The whole deal smacks of pure pork barrel politics!
CFC to recognize separate FQE membership status in FIDE!! Worse still, an initial 3-year agreement giving the FQE separate, but equal, rights as all of the rest of Canada in the selection process of all Canadian representatives to all international chess events including the Olympiad, World Cup as well as FIDE Congresses will be ratified without any face to face meeting of the CFC.
This year the CFC has decided not to hold the usual Annual Meeting (AGM) of delegates of the federation. Instead, a virtual meeting will be held via the internet. This is the first time in history that a face to face meeting will not have been held. This also marks the first time ANY national chess federation in the world will do so.
This is particularly worrisome, since the FQE-CFC problem is an intriguing political maze that has defied solution for more than 30 years. Without adequate public discussion of the complex issues behind why the FQE has refused to be a member of the CFC, the current CFC president is hoping to pull off what is in effect a coup d'etat inside the Canadian chess community.
There is the question that the entire process is not only illegal but unconstitutional according to the CFC's own regulations. The CFC represents Canada to the world as a member of FIDE, the international chess body. As well, the CFC sends teams to the Chess Olympiad, World Youth Chess Championship, and other major international events. By now allowing the FQE an equal say in these issues--which no other provincial federation is allowed --and by recognizing the unique right of the FQE to represent ANY french-speaking player anywhere in Canada, the CFC is opening itself to law suits from any and every provincial chess federation.
There are numerous french-speaking communities outside of Quebec--numbering in the hundreds of thousands of Canadian citizens-- and this agreement recognizes the right of the FQE to represent their interests in chess! Has anyone involved in brokering this agreement even bothered to ask them?
Furthermore, any member of the FQE will have EXACTLY the same rights as every other member of the CFC (anywhere in Canada), and will only have to pay 9 dollars a year--which will be generously paid for by the FQE!. Adult members elsewhere in Canada have to pay anywhere between 35 and 40 dollars for the same rights.
All Canadian chess players will be losing if this deal gets ratified, as they will be in effect, subsidizing the FQE memberships while accepting to be 2nd class citizens in their own province! It is expected that sometime in the next 3 years , when the initial agreement will be up for re-negotiation, the CFC will have formally petitioned FIDE for separate FQE membership.
I will keep readers up to date as more information becomes available. Thus far the CFC and the FQE have made sparse the exact details of the deal. The whole deal smacks of pure pork barrel politics!
I don't think GM Spraggett really understood the deal...
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