The absence of the kind of democratic goodwill that would be associated with any real
CREA general membership involvement was a feature leading up to the vote on the Consent Agreement in St. Johns Nfld and there is a particular irony to this because the matter involved a Federal Government entity, namely, the Competition Bureau of Canada.
Not exact matches
As familiar as I was with the inner workings of
CREA, from this distance it is hard to see the benefits to the
general membership, so I strongly recommend that new communication methods be developed.
Although the headline news was all about the Consent Agreement that was ratified Sunday,
CREA's Special
General Meeting also tackled the thorny issue of
CREA's proposal to raise annual
membership dues by $ 50 in 2011 — $ 25 of which would be earmarked for technology, with $ 23 for
CREA's national ad campaign and $ 2 for legal costs.
At a special
general assembly held in October in Ottawa, members from boards across Canada gave
CREA the votes it needed to firmly entrench what have been described as the «three pillars» of MLS:
membership; remuneration sharing; and agency.
On Monday,
CREA announced that during its Annual
General Meeting in Ottawa, its
membership approved amendments clarifying
CREA's rules relating to real estate boards» MLS systems.
REM: The dues increase that
CREA's
membership voted in favour of at your Special
General Meeting in October included $ 5 per member for the Legal Defence Fund — is
CREA growing this fund in anticipation of further legal action from the bureau?
One explanation that I would offer as to why it may be easy for
CREA to detach itself from the
general membership, would be a lack of good democratic practices being exercised by too many of the various Associations and or Real Estate Boards across Canada, when the various elections come around for new Regional Directors.
The agreement is subject to ratification by the
CREA membership at its Special
General Meeting in St. John's on October 24.