GM 2014-03-19 minutes

The regular General Meeting of the Pirate Party of Canada came to order at 20:28 Eastern Time, March 19, 2014 at ca.pirateirc.net irc channel #canada. The President (phillipsjk) was the chair.

phillipsjk MOVED "approve agenda as written." SECONDED by MHoude CARRIED (9 in favor)

phillipsjk made a minor correction on the previous months' minutes ("Executive Board" -> "Political Council" election results)

phillipsjk MOVED "to approve the February 26 minutes (as) amended." SECONDED by dysonsphere CARRIED (11 in favor)

For Officers reports, phillipsjk reported: "The Special Meetings did not meet quorum. We also received a request to remove old forum postings. We should consider having a policy on that."

RLim reported: "All tax receipts were mailed today. So if anyone wants their tax receipts sooner (e.g. doing taxes this weekend) let me know and I can sent you a pdf copy via e-mail"

phillipsjk YIELDED CHAIR to CraigNobbs at 20:44 Eastern

CraigNobbs MOVED to Approve Political Council and Consitutional Amendment results SECONDED by Wilson-Canada CARRIED (11 in favor)

CraigNobbs MOVED to vote on accepting the results for the constitutional amendment, in changing the quorum from 15 to 10. SECONDED by XFaCE CARRIED (13 in favor)

CraigNobbs again brought forward his Propsed Constitutional Amendment It was debated for about half an hour.

CraigNobbs MOVED "to send the amendment to an all party ballot" SECONDED by phillipsjk FAILED (3 for, 6 against, 3 abstain)

TravisMcCrea withdrew his NOTICE on changing the party's name. Instead proposing to "start a committee which would investigate the notion of a name change ." Debate ensued for about 25 minutes.

TravisMcCrea MOVED ...that we establish an feedback committee designed to collect feedback and analytics regarding the Pirate Party and it's outreach abilities as well as peoples attitudes in general towards the Pirate brand and philosophy in Canada. The committee would be headless but organized initially by Travis McCrea, and would present it's findings at monthly meetings. SECONDED by phillipsjk (10 minutes of more debate) CARRIED (11 for, 1 against)

CrainNobbs announced that: "(He) will be declining the position of President and accepting the role of Deputy Leader"

phillips MOVED "Hold VP nominations over the next month, with all-party ballot to be approved at the next General Meeting." SECONDED by psema4 NO VOTE

RLim MOVED ...that we defer making CraigNobbs choose between President and Deputy until a new constitutional amendment on this matter have been sent to an all party ballot and the results approved by a GM. Until then CraigNobbs retains both President and Deputy Leader position. SECONDED by CraigNobbs NO VOTE. TravisMcCrea said: "I still object to RLim's motion because it violates the constition of the party."

Wilson-Canada noted that we LOST QUORUM (still 15) at 22:59 Eastern.

CraigNobbs MOVED to adjourn SECONDED by mordecai CARRIED (8 in favor)

The Meeting Adjourned at 23:07 Eastern time.