Membership Renewal Required For Manitoba Metis Federation

 a bit of info on the new membership requirements ;


RESOLUTION
NO: 2     DATE:  September 11, 2011 
WHERE AS:  Article III (4)(a) of MMF By-Law No. 1 (the MMF 
Constitution) provides in part that: 
4. Classes of Membership 
a. Individual Member 
Current Members: 
All current members shall be required to provide a genealogy including 
supporting evidentiary documents completed a recognized institution to 

objectively verify the members Historic Metis Nation Ancestry no later than 
September 1, 2012. 
AND WHEREAS Article IV (5) of the Constitution provides: 
Termination of Membership 
Individual membership shall terminate upon the happening of one or more of 
the following events:  viz, 
5. It is determined by the Federation that the member has not 
provided the genealogy including supporting evidentiary 
documents that he or she objectively and verifiably meets the 
definition of Metis in Article III 1 and the individual membership 

requirement in Article III and the individual membership 
requirement in Article III 4 (a). 
AND WHEREAS the Board of Directors of the MMF have determined that 
a number of current members will not be able to comply with the 
requirement to provide the genealogy including supporting evidentiary 
documents by September 1st 2012. 
BE IT RESOLVED that Article III 4 (a) of the Constitution be amended by 
deleting the words “no later than September 1st 2012” and substituting 
therefore the words “no later than September 1st 2014”. 
MOVED BY:  Ed Charrier 
SECONDED BY:  John Fleury 
RESOLUTION PASSED