License Application.

[jmills (John Mills, CMI)]

@vmitchinson

A few comments to explain a few things.
Chris-- The reason no one new what was going on was that for me to get on the advisory committee I was blackmailed into agreeing to not repeat anything that was going on in the committee and what the government was planning. I completely disagree with these back room secret meetings this government does continously. It is standard practise and the only way it will ever change is to change the government. Until then expect more of the same. The reason the regulations are so bad and contradict itself is because they were written in secret and then announced in the legislature as a done deal. No public input, no debate and no vote to enact. These new rules enacted in secret and now law have diminished and taken away some more of our right and freedoms and will cost us all more money for no reason. The claim that it was to protect the consumer is false as the consumer complaints were very few and far between.
John-- To take the i4u, Allen told me last week that he is going to provide a CD with InterNACHI’s courses and the student does the course at home them attends the i4u classes. I think Nick gets a membership fee for each student hence the free years membership in InterNACHI.
The regulations do not require you to belong to any association so you are free to join any assoc you want to.
That is why I promoted the CCHI as a way to create status and marketability for our members. That is also why I moved the motion that was passed at the last meeting to make CCHI exclusive to members that have passed the CMI peer review. The i4u tipr (modelled on CAHPI) does not cut it. After the **BS **Nick has pulled over the last month I have come to the conclusion that we should promote our Alberta association as a stand along organization and work out some affiliation with outside groups be they InterNACHI CAHPI or some other compatible assoc. We will have some very serious decisions to be made in the future.

I concur.
Our web site could be the first change. Promote Alberta members.

[ctasker (Christopher Tasker)]

Vern, Excellent post, your right, that was unfair that the Gov operated so secretly, I agree with all your points, In a previous post I had said that I already see AlbertaNachi as a seperate entity because you guys were fighting for us, and right now AlbertaNachi members are talking and emailing amongst themselves, organizing shared CD books etc,reducing the cost, it has been good to witness the positive reactions, Keep us in the loop with the association idea, would be a proud member, thanks, Chris.

[jmills (John Mills, CMI)]

Received my license today (2). It took two weeks.

One pitfall for me that required a trip to Edmonton was when I signed the bond, my name was not witnessed. The government does at good job in checking all documents.
Even though we are having problems with the contract, still send in your application using the contract we have.
My reason is, the government will have the opportunity to check your insurance & education & you will be in the process.
In talking to Vern there will be a meeting next week with our lawyer & the minister (and others) to resolve our concerns with the contract. After this, if we get the changes we want you will send a letter with the new contract to the government and then get you license.
My contract was approved because I removed the controversial clause’s & put them into my report.
The contract can be reduced in size by deleting the space taken-up for the sub-contractor information & replacing it with one line “No sub-contractor will be used”.
This can be done in a number of areas without changing the intent of the contract. My contract is three pages long.

[fkamprath (Fritz Kamprath, CET, CMI)]

I got the contract down to 2 pages by moving and resizing the content that the lawyer wrote up.