Only 7 months left for CCA President Kinash

Eddie Arzouian

We can begin to see light at the end of the tunnel.

The question is now not if Bill Kinash will be sacked but who will replace him. That`s some progress.

Ask yourselves:

Do you have Official National Criterium Championships yet?

Do you know the rules for the supposed `new` and supposed `national` road series yet, that takes you to metropolitan centres like Elliot Lake 460kms. north of toronto where not a soul outside of little town will hear or see the event.?

Do you know the official prize money for the series yet?

Has the Hutsebaut issue really been resolved yet? Why is his name still listed as being at the CCA? What will happen when he does return? Will he sue the CCA?

Why has the Communications and Marketing Director position been completely removed from the CCA staff list?

Has the CCA given up on new sponsors completely?

Why has the CCA merchandise not yet begun to be sold? The link is still empty on the plaigarized web site after eight months or so.

Have you heard anything from the CCA-Hamiltlon Foundation?

Where is the their Annual Report for 2004 promised by Bill Kinash last December 2004?

Has the Foundation done anythign at all to find new sponsors, partner and donors as MANDATED by the CCA in Bill Kinash`s Annual Report for 2003?

All those questions and all you can come up with is banning me from Pedla and CC forums. Has that solved anything?

For those of you with your heads still in the sand it is spring 2005, you can come up for air, nothing has changed in two and half years.


Don't forget to add to the list below:

I will also begin my list of unaccomplishments for Bill for 2004-2005. I will make the list far more detailed than that I did for 2004 which had 25 points.

List of CCA Unaccomplishments for 2004-2005

1. CCA fails to elect an Olympic and World Champion medal winner and TV personality Curt Harnett to its board of Directors squandering yet another excellent public relations opportunity.

2. The 2005 AGM is scheduled for Whitehorse, Yukon, (cycling hotbed, media capital)

3. The CCA fails to audits its books properly. This lead to a delay in receiving Sports Canada funding. CCA is forced to fire their long time accountant Financial Coordinator Debbie Villeneuve, which makes you wonder if this sloppy management has been going on for years under Hutsebaut and Jolly and they didn't care or could not figure it out?

4. CCA Board of Directors fails to approve the by-laws of the new CCA Foundation. So the Foundation formed in Feb. 2004 has done nothing for ten months and cannot do anything for who knows how long until approved. No sponsors have been found. No partnerships formed. No donations taken in. We still do not know where the $500,000 is? We do not know if the CCA really controls it.

5. CCA hires a Communications and Marketing Coordinator with self admitted, " non-cycling background and knowing pretty much ziltch (sic) about the sport " -Mat Litalien. Employee subsequently leaves the position for Hockey Canada a few months or so later. Important position stay empty for months again.

6. CCA launches a "new", "national" road series that has no new races. It only goes to three provinces, making it hardly national. It only lasts a few weeks. It does not even have enough prize money to cover expenses for the winner. It lacks a sponsor of any kind.

7. CCA President Bill Kinash fails for two months to congratulate Lori Ann Muenzer on the her Olympic Gold medal. News of this snub and major communications mistake is published across Canada in a Canadian Press Report (Dec. 08 2004). Muenzer says, "If I was holding my breath I'd be dead".

8. In the same news piece CCA President Bill Kinash displays his complete lack of marketing skills by publicly stating to CP, “marketing them (Olympic medal winners) to aid the sport may be something to consider in the future.” Again, excuses and delays and an apparent lack of understanding that there is a very limited shelf-life to an Olympic medal. If you do not use it quickly you lose it. Basic marketing.

9. In his Christmas Greeting Bill Kinash tells us the CCA President and the Board of Directors are not responsible for the operations of the CCA. Mr. Kinash says that is the responsibility of the Director General (who is in hiding since May 2004) or the Chief Operating Officer (who does not yet exist and will not for another month at least). So the CCA has been and is rudderless according to the President himself.

Apparenly the buck does not stop with him.

(feel free to add your own CCA unaccomplishments to this list....)