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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
Junee 10, 2005
Dear members,
As you know, the Association held its Annual General Meeting on May 24. At that meeting, I was elected as your new Chair. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and for participating in the process by casting your vote. I am very excited to take on this challenge and will work hard to continue to carefully listen to what you have to say. It is you, the member, who ultimately gives us our mandate to represent you and to undertake the work we do. This is not a task I take lightly and it is an honour to have been elected by you.
Along with me, two new Directors were elected to the Board (Arjun Patil and Tony Bourque) and one member was reelected (Robert Loiselle). Together with Jim Currier and Jonathan Hood they form an excellent and enthousiastic team, which I look forward to working with to provide you, the member, with the services you deserve.
We have our work cut out for us and we know where our priorities lie. Our number one focus is now on collective bargaining, which has been progressing well to date, but has surely not yet been resolved. This is the first time in Association history that we entered into negotiations under a conciliation strike mandate. The ACFO Board of Directors is committed to serve the FI community and stand up to the Employer with its members' best interest at heart.
We will continue to increase the Association's visibility among those decision makers who matter to our membership by playing an advocacy role for the improvement of financial management within the federal government. Opinion leaders in government will know ACFO, and will know it as a credible, constructive voice on public sector finance issues. The strategic goals of this enterprise are twofold: to ensure that the financial control systems of the federal government are comprehensive and effective; and provide an atmosphere where financial officers can be effective and have greater influence.
I would like to thank Merdon Hosking for his years of dedication to the Association as its founding Chair, and wish him the best in his well-deserved retirement.
For updates on collective bargaining and other Association news, please check our website (www.acfo-acaf.com) regularly.
Sincerely,
Milt Isaacs CMA
Chair
Association of Canadian Financial Officers
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