Agenda of Annual General Meeting

The following is the Agenda of the Annual General Meeting of CSIC with commentary. It is very important to realize a few basic principles:

  1. This is the first annual general meeting in which we are allowed to participate.
  2. Previous annual meetings were conducted without participation of members.
  3. By having an online meeting only, we will not have any control of the meeting – the moderator will have the right to censor and eliminate any contribution of any of the members if it is not convenient to the Board. There is only one workable strategy –not approve anything that the Board proposes. It is a matter of principle.
  4. By analysis of the proposed changes to the By-laws we concluded that any proposed change would strip the members of yet another right.
  5. The Board used unfair tactics to avoid dealing with member motions – we cannot change the fact. We can, however, change the perception of the Board that we are here to please them. NO!
  6. By voting NO to anything that the Board proposes we can show that we are aware of our rights and we have no intention to have them be taken away!


CANADIAN SOCIETY OF IMMIGRATION CONSULTANTS/ SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DE CONSULTANTS EN IMMIGRATION (THE “SOCIETY”)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
JUNE 16, 2007

Agenda



  1. Approval of the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held March 20, 2006.*

None of the members were present at this meeting – we CANNOT vote to approve the Minutes. If the Board wants to approve the Minutes, they can vote for them – we cannot. We were not full members in March 2006.

  1. Report of the Directors. (to be circulated)

Hard to comment on something that has not been circulated yet – please come back. Once we have the document, we will analyze it and recommend the members what action to take.

  1. Report of the Audit Committee.

    2. (a) Report of Auditors and Presentation of Audited Financial

Statements for the period ending October 31, 2006.*
Many of us asked for more detailed report – there are amounts that are not clear in the report and we need to have the relevant information before we can approve the financial statements. Unless we receive the details, we should not approve the financial statements.

    (b) Appointment of Auditors.

  1. Approval of amendments to the By-laws. **

Warning! By approving the proposed changes to the By-laws, we would give up any rights for the future. The simplest way to deal with the proposed changes is to vote against any changes. The Board will argue that the language related to transitional members must be removed from the By-laws. It’s not true. Nothing happens if the obsolete language remains – the sheer fact that there are no transitional members anymore will make any of the by-laws obsolete. THE CHANGES TO THE CURRENT BY-LAWS SHOULD NOT BE APPROVED.

  1. Members’ Motions

As far as we know, none of the motions were approved. We were not notified about any motions submitted to the Board. Thus, by default, any motion introduced should be rejected. We won’t have the opportunity to discuss anything that will be presented. The best strategy is to simply vote against anything that the Board proposes.

  1. Adjournment
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