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2021 Equestrian Canada Annual General Meeting: Wrap-Up And Video Streaming
Ottawa, ON, Oct. 13, 2021 – The 2021 Equestrian Canada (EC) Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place on Sept. 28, 2021, with the current and incoming EC Board of Direc- tors and EC Voting Members attending via virtual meeting and the community invited to tune in through Facebook livestream. The AGM agenda in-
cluded five items of business, as well reports and updates from EC leadership and the Finance & Audit and Nomi- nating Committees. In addi- tion to a Q&A period in the meeting, the community/ li- cense holders were requested to send questions to their cat- egory by Sept. 21, 2021. EC President, Chris Sorensen ad- dressed questions submitted by the Category A, B and C Voting Member groups.
Approval of Agenda & Adoption of Minutes After Gilles Seguin
(Category C) motioned to ap- prove the agenda “as cor- rected”, with the bylaw change section of the meeting withdrawn, and Karen Swan- tje (Category B) seconded the motion, the motion was car- ried with none opposed. Geri Sweet (Category
B) followed with the motion to approve adoption of the minutes from the 2020 AGM. The motion was seconded by Janice Tyndall (Category C). With none opposed, the mo- tion was carried. The adopted minutes from the 2020 AGM are available on the EC web-
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President’s Report After completing the
first two items of business, Sorensen provided an opening address that encompassed a high-level overview of infor- mation contained in the Board of Director’s Annual Report of Activity and CEO Manage- ment Report for the fiscal year 2020-2021. Visit the links below to view the full reports.
2020-2021 EC Board of Di- rectors Annual Report of Activity
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2020-2021 EC CEO Man- agement
Report
https://bit.ly/3nanYcH Sorensen
- introduced
Stephanie Parker, Senior Pro- gram Analyst, Programs Divi- sion from Sport Canada. Though a Sport Canada pres- entation was initially sched- uled on the AGM agenda, due to continued restrictions from the caretaker’s convention, Parker’s presentation will be circulated following the meet- ing.
Finance and Audit Commit- tee Report Robert Mitchell, Chair
of the Finance and Audit Committee, delivered a report outlining the financial activity of EC over the past year. He then welcomed Kirsten Gilles from Auditors, KPMG, who
Appointment of the Audi- tors
Regarding the appoint-
ment of the Auditors for 2021-2022, Mitchell recom- mended EC remain with KPMG. The motion was made by Gilles Seguin (Cate- gory C) and seconded by Cindy Klassen (Category B). None were opposed, and the motion was carried.
Q&A Period Prior to the 2021 AGM,
the community had the oppor- tunity to submit questions to the EC Voting Members, with each Category bringing ques- tions forward for the EC Board to address during the
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provided a recap of the 2020- 2021 Audited Financial State- ments report. The next agenda item
was the acceptance of the 2020-2021 EC Financial Statements,
whereby
Sorensen confirmed that the Voting Members have re- ceived the 2020-2021 audited financials and are provided with the opportunity to ask questions. No questions were asked. Visit the links below to view the full report and 2020- 21 Audited Financial State- ments.
2020-2021 EC Audit & Fi- nance Committee Annual Report
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2020-2021 Audited Finan- cial
Statements
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Nominating Committee Re- port
Sorensen introduced the
new Directors elected for a 2021-2024 term: Melanie Biron and Chris Lowe, who are new to the Board in 2021 and Dr. Wayne Burwash, who was re-elected. Information on the cur-
rent Board of Directors can be found
at
www.equestrian.ca/about/gov ernance/board and the full Nominating Committee’s re- port can be found at the link below. 2021 EC Nominating Com- mittee - Director Election Re- port -
https://bit.ly/3iZKiEm
Watch the Full Video of the 2021 EC AGM The AGM was recorded
and streamed live on EC’s Facebook page, and the full video is available here at
www.equestrian.ca/events-re- sults/general-meeting.
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For more information on visit
www.equestrian.ca/about/gov ernance. Full information and access to AGM documents can be found at www.eques-
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AGM. Any questions not ad- dressed during the AGM due to time restrictions will be re- sponded to directly. The 2021 EC AGM Q&A transcript will be available on our website.
Following the AGM, the
new Board of Directors met on Oct. 4, 2021 at 12:00pm ET to elect the Board Officers for the 2021-22 Board year. Sorensen was acclaimed as President, while Lisa Robert- son was elected as Vice Pres- ident 1 and Charles Cue re-elected as Vice President 2.
Questions? Comments? Questions and comments re- garding the AGM can be di- rected to the EC Category
Members by email as follows: Category A
CategoryA@equestrian.ca
Category B
CategoryB@equestrian.ca
Category C
CategoryC@equestrian.ca
Additional comments
and questions can be for- warded to EC President, Chris Sorensen,
president@equestrian.ca. at
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