Chamber of Commerce

We've been looking at the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors which is the same type of organization as the Community Futures Development Corporation, an organization with a membership. One seems to work, the other one seems to be stuck in the mud. Now I find out the same person, Mr David Mitchell is the manager of the one that is stuck in the mud and the President of the one that seems to work. We wonder why? We always believe to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce you have to have some kind of business. Mr Mitchell is the manager of a Corporation that operates with public funds only. What kind of business would you call that? Monkey business? The one that he's manager of, we are not allowed to see the membership list. The one that he is the president of, the membership list is on the website. Why is that? I'm asking you, the members of the Chamber of Commerce as members of the community to ask Mr Mitchell why he won't tell us or show us the membership list of the Community Futures. I've seen lots of good people with good intentions on this list. What are the intentions of the ones on the list that we aren't allowed to see? This is for the good of the community as a whole. Please participate.

Incorporation Charter

Please let us know what you think we should be doing with this one!!!
Is this criminal not to follow the By-Laws #1 aka The Charter of Incorporation?
If not, why not?
What is more important than hurting the Community that you were meant to help??
A) Conflict of Interests
B) Incompetence
C) Mismanagement
D) Sloppy book keeping
E) Conspiracy to adversely affect certain Northern Vancouver Island entrepreneurs

Society Act

Hi Josh,

I appreciate the fact that you take your time to ask question, but you sure ask good ones.
This is a Federal Society, it is incorporated in Ottawa under part 2 of the Act.
A society with a membership.
It's called Community Futures Developemt Corporation of Mount Waddington Inc #313436-9
Click here and scroll down to BY-LAW NO. 1 and read the details.
This is what they told Incorporation Canada they would be doing if they get the Incorporation status. Now they are doing whatever they want, no accountablilty, no responsibility, why tell the truth when a good lie will do? Who gets on the Board of Directors are the politicians, how do they do it? We've been told it was none of our business. I asked many times, look at the email above from John Tidbury. He is on the Board of Directors of the CFDC, he's a councilor for the town of Port Hardy, he ran for Mayor in the past, he's a long time member of the Lions Club, a very good outstanding high-classs citizen until he is cornered then he turns into a fowl mouth A**H***. He learned from the past Mayor, Mr Russ Hellberg how to mislead the public with all of these societies feeding on each other.
About the Premier, I talked to Gordan Campbell about this, it was none of their business. This was created by Brian Mulroney to by pass the provincial Government to be able to buy votes directly from the public "Slush Fund"
"Called Action Direct" (in Quebec)
Down there they're in jail, in BC they run free. Why is that? Keep asking questions, maybe a secret admirer will let us know who's in charge.

Charity

Mayor Furney writes:

February 21, 2011

Dear Prime Minister:
As the Mayor of a resource-dependent community (forestry, mining, aquaculture), I have been greatly impressed by the well-researched articles of Vancouver writer Vivian Krause in recent issues of the National Post. She traces vast amounts of money being transferred by U.S. foundations to anti-indudstry Canadian foundations for distribution to these activist groups in Canada.
I understand that these foundations and the Canadian recipients all enjoy “tax-free” status under the guise of being “charitable.”
Having observed our resource companies and resource communities being the victims of some very unkind campaigns by these so-called charities, I have yet to observe or experience any “charitable” actions by them. In fact, their actions appear to be the antithesis of charity.
I believe that a review should be undertaken of all these organizations that claim to be “charitable,” to ensure that they meet the stringent “charitable” requirements of our Government. If they do not meet the charitable standard that we expect, then their tax-free status should be rescinded. Is this possible?
Your Sincerely,
Mayor Furney

After reading this letter I come to the conclusion of how easy it is to critisize others.
As a tax payer in the Regional District of Mount Waddington for 40 years and with you being the Mayor for the same amout of time, don't you think I have a few fair questions that should be answered from our local politians? What about transparency, accountability, ethics and who is really in charge?
I understand that our Community Economic Development (CED) is supposed to the the responsibility of our local politicians as politicians. Not to sit on he Board of Directors of the Community Futures Development Corporation of Mount Waddington that is the main controller of our CED as a volunteer to cut out the real volunteers who would be pleased to donate their time to make sure that place is running according to the rules and benefitting the community as a whole. All these elected politicains appoint themselves to all of these organizations to make sure that no volunteers with good meaning can have their way. Control, control, control.
About the "Charitable Organization", we have the same shit here, right in Port Mc Neill but the Chair of the Regional District and some elected Board members sit on that charity Board who can't be mentioned here. Too close for comfort.
By the way, I sent a comment to that letter but your friend refused to post it. The truth is the truth, isn't it?

Board Members

One thing I would like to bring to your attention is this, Mr Gerd Brockelmann, one member of your phony Board of Directors at Community Futures Development Corporation of Mount Waddington.
In 2008 he was living in Coal Harbour.
In 2009 he was living in Coal Harbour.
In 2010 he was living in Courtney.
In 2011 he was living in Courtney.
In 2012 he's still living in Courtney according to Ottawa.
He's been on the Board of Directors for five years in a row, against the rules to start with. For three years he was out of town. This doesn't seem to bother you a bit. In your propaganda on your website, our volunteer Board of Directors in nominated and elected to Govern Community Futures. All Board Members belong to the community of the Regional District of Mount Waddington. Please explain.
Your website is so slippery, it states that Mr Brockelmann lives in Port Mc Neill. Is he a ghost? We can't track him down. Lots of power but no where to be found. Telephone disconnected in Coal Harbour, not in the phone book in Port Mc Neill or Courtney but well alive in your paper work. To top this all off, you went on and took the job to run the Chamber of Commerce. This is a prime example of how Community Futures should be run. Exactly the same principal, organization with a membership.
Very simple
1) Nomination
2) Election
3) Results
4) Democracy at work
5) Everyone is smiling
6) With the way you're doing it everyone is pissed off, except the insiders.

MP Letter

All these letters came from questions about December 4th 2009's letter from Mr Rushton to Incorporation Canada to change the constitution with no authority what-so-ever, just on BS. A local politician at work as a volunteer, Chair of the CFDCMW with no mandate what-so-ever from the public, self appointed and to them it's just small potatoes. What happened to the big word that we are all proud of and call DEMOCRACY? We will post the main letter after your next question.



Annual Barbecue NOT AGM

"We used to have open house but nobody came."
Not so, Mr Mitchell. The reason why the open house was cancelled is because people like to ask questions and you had no answers. "Tell the truth please" You started fund raising to eliminate the Annual General Meeting (AGM), where the election for the Board of Directors of Community Futures is supposed to happen. I believe an election for the Board of Directors is more important than fund raising. You can stand at the barbecue all you want, but you're not impressing anyone but yourself. If you manage the Community Futures properly, according to the rules, the By-Laws, the contract with WED, then you would impress everyone. You are not in partnership with Western Economic Diversification. You have a contract with WED signed by both parties. Please do not mislead the public. At the open house, which doesn't happen anymore, you get to meet the staff and the Board. If the public asks questions you cancel the AGM and you cancel the open house and you go make hamburgers and you're proud of yourself. You state that "Few people know Community Futures is a small business lending program." It is not a lending program. It is a program to diversify the economy, specifically not to compete with the existing businesses.
You state that someone said "Oh, you're the people who give all the money away."
People are telling the facts the way they see it. Give all the money to the friends before anyone else knows there is money available and not necessarily through loans. We know the details.

You say you are better than the bank. I asked the manager of the bank in 2000 and she told me "If we were running the bank like they are running the Community Futures, we would all be out of a job in a week."

You can blow your horn all you want, we know what you guys did and are still doing. You just like to perpetuate the problem and not run the place according to the rules and that's not acceptable in a Democratic society.

Control, Control, Control.

We see the same crap now, that we have been through in the past. The same people want to cover all the seats that are open to the public as volunteers. The manager of the Community Futures Development Corporation of Mt Waddington, Mr David Mitchell, who can't even do that job properly he's also the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Port Mc Neill, he's also on the Board of Directors of Venture Connect Project. That is all intertwined with a bunch of Community Futures to destroy more businesses and fool the public in believing that help is on the way. Mr Mitchell is also on the Vancouver Island North Tourism Advisory Committee with the past Manager of the Community Futures who made such a good mess before Mr Mitchell got here. A real recipe for success. They do all this without a mandate from the public. Where the F--- has democracy gone?!?! Has democracy gone for a shit? Or do we have too many smart politicians who figure that we don't have to respect democracy.
Why do we have democracy if we don't put it into practice?