GM 2012-04-18 minutes

The regular General Meeting of the Pirate Party of Canada was called to order at 20:10 Eastern Time, April 18, 2012 at irc.pirateparty.ca, irc channel #canada. The president was in the chair and the secretary was present.

Minutes from previous meeting was approved.

wasme raised a point of order "that we must adopt an agenda first before proceeding to approve the minutes." The chair ruled "that an agenda is not required." The chair's ruling was sustained with 7 ayes and 2 nays.

Travis McCrea have moved "to suspend the rules to grant non-members permission to speak." Motion was defeated as required two-third vote was not reached. 7 ayes and 4 nays.

Executive President Sean Hunt reported "that Stephane Bakhos, the chief agent, has informed me that the work reconciling the financial rcords is mostly done. There are a few issues (income lines do not line up; he suspects this is due to misaccounting of PayPal fees), and a formal report will be forthcoming. A broad-pictured report is available at http://pr.piratepad.ca/135 (password p1r4t3)

PPCA Leader Shawn Vulliez provided an update on social media. Facebook followers doubled and broke 5000. Anyone who would like to help with social media can e-mail shawnvulliez@pirateparty.ca. The leader also said "any comments on the current social media practices, you can e-mail me there as well. Let us know what you'd like to see us do there, and we'll try to make it happen."

PPCA Deputy Leader Travis McCrea reported that he "had motioned to allow all Pirate Parties who were seeking application into PPI (even those with a late application) to be given the opportunity to speak, but eventually voted against their ability to actually be voted on since the rules were clear and they all had plenty of time to apply."

PPCA Deputy Leader Travis McCrea also reported that "the Pirate Party of Tunisia (headed by the Pirate blogger who became a minister of parks and games) asked for persmission to join PPI as a full member. PPIs rules say only one Pirate Party from each country can be an official member, and Pirate Party Australia and I were discussing that there was an old Pirate Party in Tunisia already. It turns out this new tunisian pirate party tried to go behind the old ones backs seeking membership into the party." The Deputy Leader added that he "had hosted a meeting between the old pirate party of tunisia (which still exsists) and the new one, as well as Australia, New Zealand, UK, and myself to discuss if we would be in favour of the new PPTN becoming a member. We felt that due to the underhanded way that the new PPTN sought approval (without even discussing it with the second party), and because there were clearly internal issues that needed to be sorted out, that we wanted them to try again during the next election for membership.

PPCA Deputy Leader also reported that he "ran for the board of PPI as an individual and had the second highest number of votes in my favour - and as such is now a board member of Pirate Parties". Travis McCrea also "spoke in support of the Pirate Party of Florida gaining membership as an observer." He also discussed with The Pirate Party of Florida the future of their book No Safe Harbour and are now looking at ways to promote the book which promotes the Pirate Ideology."

Sean Hunt reintroduced a motion postponed from last meeting. The motion was "that a standing rule be put in place forbidding the Pirate Party of Canada, or anyone working on their behalf, from using automated calls, or robocalls without the Political Council's approval." Motion was adopted after debate and amendment with 5 ayes and 12 nays.

Johann Weiss moved for constitutional amendments #1 to # 11 (see http://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php/GM_2012-04-18_Proposed_Amendments_to_the_Constitution)

Amendments was accepted after debates and amendments and will be submitted to the membership for a vote.

Johann Weiss moved "to add a comments section to the ballot so that the voters can write in any questions/comments on them." The motion was adopted with 7 ayes and 2 nays.

David Ascroft moved "to appoint Robert McGrath as the candidate for Ottawa-Orleans." Motion was adopted with 9 ayes, 0 nays.

Ric Lim moved "to appoint David Ascroft as the candidate for Nepean-Carleton". Motion was adopted with 8 ayes, 0 nays.

Shawn Vulliez moved "to call on the IT committee to install liquidfeedback on our server and begin a trial run to work as an informal polling mechanism in the party until further notice, open to members only." The motion was adopted with 8 ayes and 0 nays.

Travis McCrea gave notice to move to affirm his candidacy for Vancouver Centre in the the next General Meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 01:10 Eastern Time, April 19, 2012.

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