UNITY FIASCO
| February 23 2001 Bill Vander Zalm It is with regrets, that you no longer support the purposes of Reform BC, and it is with sadness that as a former Honorable Premier, you will be purported as one responsible for the destruction of two political parties. At your meeting on February 10th, 2001 held in Aldergrove, you proposed “a motion to deregister the Reform Party and seek by way of a vote the support for the decision from Reform Members present at the Convention in Kamloops in February.” A meeting that did not have a quorum of voting members. You have absolutely no authority what so ever to even suggest a resolution of that sort, especially when it is neither supported by a majority of the Board or Members of Reform. The meeting you go to is a Unity Party meeting not a Reform BC meeting. Meeting with Ross McQuarrie on Thursday February 15th he agreed that you did not have a quorum and that the list of directors prepared by Bob Zayonc had left off Caroline Meridith as a voting member. You Believed, by not recognizing Andy Loogman , out of 12 voting members you would have six out of five voting members in attendance. The fact that you did not recognize Andy is supported not only by Ross but also by Ray Feenstra and Terry Milne.. (see enclosed). Non-voting Directors are recognized and aloud to speak at Board Meetings but not aloud to vote. I, myself, am proof of that. I was elected in a non-voting position as an Ex-Officio Officer by the Members at an Annual General Meeting and as such not counted as part of the quorum. As for Welsh,Zayonc and Hall who supported your motion to deregister and not run Reform candidates in the next Provincial Election, are also seen , by their actions, to not support the purposes of Reform BC “PURPOSES 2.1 To operate as a political party within the Province of British Columbia.” and as such, as well as yourself, no longer deemed by Reform Bylaws (1.1) to be a Member of Reform BC.
Ron Gamble
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