DID YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD ANNUAL MEETING?
b y Pierre Filion pierrefilion@bell.net Ah, annual meetings have always amazed me; and I loved then. I have attended 43 Canadian Lacrosse annual meetings in my time with the Québec Lacrosse Fédération. Some were outstandingly interesting and obviously some lacked life and were simply boring. And I have always wondered why delegates come from all over the country to , so often, sit, listen, vote as they are told to vote and rubber stamp whatever is presented to them by an organized Board of Directors. After positive annual meetings the delegate leave totally gung-ho and have a vivid feeling of being part of a developing national association; they take this feeling home, speak positively about the national association and get their provinces to support national projects or decisions. And here we go because WE are the CLA. On the other hand after a lackluster meeting the delegates leave with a feeling that nothing good will ever happen, that the Board of Director s knows it all and i...