Bye, bye Lorraine. Good riddance. You were a mistake

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Subject: Five years of waste and mismanagement, back to zero.


Between your inexperience and ineptitude and the mismanagement of Bill Kinash, there is almost nothing left to the sport.

Thanks.

I guess it really isn’t you fault, you should never have been hired in the first place.

Five years, five years of total waste and the sport is in a worse place than ever. How many CEOs for the CCA in five years? Four, five, six? I’ve lost count.

Lorraine says, "I do hope to stay engaged with cycling and I will work with the Board and the new CEO through this transition."

"Engaged" in cycling???

You were NEVER engaged in cycling.

Just leave please. Enough ********.


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How many times do we have to go through this?​

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How many times do I have to say I told you so????​

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Good riddance, Lorraine.​

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PLEASE, PLEASE, take Bill Kinash with you, forever.​

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This is funny, "Much good work has been achieved during the past few years. If I were to highlight some of the accomplishments I would include our ability to work as partners alongside each other, not only from within in our respective organizations but also as individuals who believe in cycling."​

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That's it, that's the highlight????​

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What a disaster.​

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What another disgrace.​

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When you decide you want me to rescue this sport just call, 607-343-1859.​

Don't wait too long, there' almost nothing left.​

from Canadian Cyclist​

November 25/08 3:30 pm EST - CCA CEO to Step Down in the New Year]Posted by Editor on 11/25/08.
CCA CEO to Step Down in the New Year

Lorraine Lafrenière, Chief Executive Officer/Secretary General of the Canadian Cycling Association announced officially today that she will be stepping down from her position at the end of March next year. In the almost two years that she has held the position, Lafrenière has shepherded the CCA through some tough financial times, and has worked with federal funding bodies to put the Association in a position to enter the next Olympic cycle with stronger finances and a new administrative structure, led by the recently hired Chief Technical Officer, Jaques Landry.

The following statement has been released by Ms Lafrenière:

After much consideration I have decided to leave the position of Chief Executive Officer with the Canadian Cycling Association. It has been a pleasure to be among you as we have worked so very hard to strengthen our organization. I will be working through to March 31st, 2009 or until a new Chief Executive is hired and you have my commitment for a smooth transition until that person is in place.

The staff in place within the CCA is committed to maintaining the organization's momentum and it is important to build the right team who can commit to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. The Board of Directors has been outstanding in providing direction and in supporting the decisions we have made to improve our services.

I know that some of the changes we have made have not been without some difficulty but I believe the work of the past few years has resulted in many positive steps for CCA. It has been a rewarding time for all of us and we have built a stronger link between CCA and the Canadian sport community. The transition will also be managed effectively with our funding agencies.

Much good work has been achieved during the past few years. If I were to highlight some of the accomplishments I would include our ability to work as partners alongside each other, not only from within in our respective organizations but also as individuals who believe in cycling. In addition to this, I am most proud of the hard work of staff in streamlining and restructuring the national office; of the contribution of our funding agencies by conducting the high performance review and in supporting us in implementing the recommended changes.

We have had great corporate supporters and donors who have made the difference in our all-too limited budget (Tim Hortons, Louis Garneau, H&R Block, Learn to Ride Cycling Partners, and Haywood). The performances in Beijing at the Olympics and Paralympics were outstanding and we are on the cusp of establishing a four-year funding partnership with Podium to take us to London 2012.

We have competent and committed CCA staff and I know that they will continue to work hard on your behalf to London 2012. The closing of an Olympiad/Paralympiad is always a time for change and it is important that CCA strike the team by April 1st that will carry the organization towards the outstanding performances in four year's time with your support and that of our funding partners. Our priority will be to build out the right team. I do hope to stay engaged with cycling and I will work with the Board and the new CEO through this transition.

I want to thank you again for giving me the chance to support cycling and I hope to do so for many years to come even though I will change roles.

Lorraine Lafrenière

Chief Executive Officer/Secretary General

Chef de la direction/Secrétaire générale
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Let’s analyze Lorraine’s resignation statement.



Keep in mind this woman was hired with NO CYCLING EXPERIENCE AT ALL, to run the sport for the country. A really stupid idea.



She was supposedly hired for her marketing and communications skills. Well, the communications aspect of the Canadian Cycling Association has been terrible. Ask anybody if you doubt it. As for marketing she did not bring one new sponsor to the table on her own. Not one.



She was supposed to have close ties to Sport Canada, that funding dwindled as well, her “Contacts” amounted to nothing, and with international race results in the toilet.



Here’s what she said:



“I believe the work of the past few years has resulted in many positive steps for CCA.”
Please tell us what those steps might be, specifically. Almost everyone agrees things are far worse than they were two, three or five years ago.



“ It has been a rewarding time for all of us and we have built a stronger link between CCA and the Canadian sport community.”
What the hell does that mean, why do we care and what is the benefit?



“ The transition will also be managed effectively with our funding agencies.”
“Agencies”, what agencies, there’s Sport Canada and a few sponsors, big deal. They are under contract, why wouldn’t it go effectively? Does she think she’s Barack Obama transitioning to The White House!



“Much good work has been achieved during the past few years. If I were to highlight some of the accomplishments I would include our ability to work as partners alongside each other, not only from within in our respective organizations but also as individuals who believe in cycling.”
Actually, the very opposite is true. I spoke just yesterday to a person deeply passionate and involved in the sport for forty years. He was in Colorado. He agreed most good people in the sport with the most knowledge have either been forced out or left in disappointment and/or disgust. The only good work that counts is better race results, more and better races, more sponsorship and more media coverage. All of those things declined thanks to Lorraine Lafrenière.



“ In addition to this, I am most proud of the hard work of staff in streamlining and restructuring the national is in a financial crisis.
Not much choice, huh, since you found no new sponsors and basically caused much of the financial hardship through incompetence and inexperience.



“We have had great corporate supporters and donors who have made the difference in our all-too limited budget (Tim Hortons, Louis Garneau, H&R Block, Learn to Ride Cycling Partners, and Haywood).”
Same sponsors for years offering a pittance which should be given back to them in protest until they really pay what the sport is worth.



“ The performances in Beijing at the Olympics and Paralympics were outstanding”
An outright lie. The Beijing Olympics results were the worse Canadian cycling results in 40 years or more, despite more categories.



“we are on the cusp of establishing a four-year funding partnership with Podium to take us to London 2012”
We supposedly have been on the cusp of something for ten years or more and nothing has happened. The CCA blew a $15,000,000 infusion into the sport in 2002-2003 and walked away with nothing. Do you really think a partnership with podium, if it ever happens, will change anything given the culture of mediocrity that prevails at the CCA?




“I want to thank you again for giving me the chance to support cycling and I hope to do so for many years.”
Please don’t. Just leave. You have done enough damage and shoveled enough BS.



Just to show you how little people care or how irrelevant the CCA has become, on the only web forum left in Canada about the sport, nobody has even mentioned her departure.

 

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In case you were wondering here is a partial list of who has run the CCA in five years.

2003-2003 Pierre Hutsebaut
2003 Rose Mercier, Interim while Hutsebaut took money for himself and his niece from France from Hamilton 2003
2004 Hutsebaut in absentia as he hid behind a sick leave to avoid dismissal.
2005 Steve Lacelle after Htusebaut was fired
2007 Brett Stewart was Interim Director, I believe
2007 - 2008 Lorraine Lafreniere


Lacelle and Lafreniere had no experience in cycling at all at any level when they took over the leadership of the sport. Bil Kinash who held back the sport of cycling for 20 years in Saskatchewan and was the only one-term CCA President in living memory hired these inexperienced people first as President nad thne on the Selection Commmittee.

Kinash's destruction of the sport nationally is almost complete now.