Meeting Minutes - Dec. 12, 2005

NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA Conseil national de la presse et medias ethniques du Canada Minutes of the December 12, 2005 Meeting Committee room #2, Main Legislative Building, Queen's Park Toronto.   Attendees: Thomas S. Saras Clyde McNeil Iraj Emad Shabrokh Saadi (not member) William Dyle-Marshall Mohamed Tajdolati Hasan  Yilmaz Massood  Mashadi Tania Nuttall Fernando Goscinski  (Not Member) Ned Blair Kenrick Bobb AhmadShah Hotaki Speaker of the day was Mr. Jim McKibbin, manager communications Statistics Canada. Clyde McNeil, the Chairman of the Council, invited him. Mr. McKibbin made a very detailed analysis on the upcoming national Canadian census and he asked for the help of the members of the ethnic press and answered every question of the members. At the end he expressed his wish for another presentation later in the New Year. At the completion of the questions period the visitors left. At this meeting only five members of the Board of Directors: Thomas S. Saras, Tania Nuttall, Ahmadshah Hotaki, Kenrick Bobb, Iraj Emad, and only two, (Thomas Saras and Kenrick Bobb), from the executive, were in attendance. As there was no quorum the Council had unofficial discussions on a number of items of the Agenda of the day. When some of the members proposed a motion and the Chair agreed to put it for a vote on a number of items, the president refused to recognize the outcome, as the Council was not meeting officially, every member in the room participated without authority although two of them were not even members of the board but visitors. Answering questions the president explained that the Council’s monthly meetings are the Board of directors meetings. However, these meetings are open to every member as an observer. In that capacity he/she contribute to the discussion with the permission of the Chair. They have no voting rights at the meetings of the board as well as they cannot substitute the members of the board in the decision making process of the administration of the organization. At this point the Chair declared the end of the meeting.