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Royal Canadian Dental Corps Association L’Association du Corps Dentaire Royal Canadien NEWSLETTER/BULLETIN December 2012 Officers of the Association President – Colonel Peter McQueen Secretary – Vacant Treasurer – Chief Warrant Officer Cliff Beauchamp Vice President –BGen Fred Begin Past President – Colonel Hap Protheroe Special Projects- LCol Bill Budzinski CFDS Representative – Major Sophie Toupin Regional Coordinator -Colonel Scott Becker Communications - Major Richard Groves PRESIDENT’S CORNER Please see the Annual RCDCA Treasurers Report at the end of this Newsletter. UNPAID RCDCA ANNUAL DUES Please send all dues checks, payable to the RCDCA, to the treasurer, Cliff Beauchamp. An enrollment form for submission of your dues may be found near the end of this newsletter. Mr. Cliff Beauchamp 1727 Boyer Rd. Orleans, ON, K1C 3H8 Tel 613 837-2958 [email protected] Effective 2013 we have raised the annual dues for RCDCA membership from $15 per year to $20. Mailing and printing costs have greatly increased and the RCDCA bank balance has been falling for years so that we cannot continue the trend. In addition several RCDCA members have not been paying their dues; thus, we have contacted them asking them to pay their past dues and to keep current. Many acted and are now fully paid up but several declined to respond and have been removed from the RCDCA membership. Moving forward we are going to pay much closer attention to those who do not pay their dues. Please take a look at the date on the address label of the envelope that contained your newsletter because it shows the year for which you are paid up; so for example if it says 2011 that means you have not paid for 2012. If you go back dues earlier than 2013 those dues are still $15 per year, note however that we cannot chase people who fail to pay their past & current dues. Members who continue with unpaid dues will be removed from RCDCA membership. CFDS Newsletters The latest CFDS Newsletter, October 2012 is out and previous CFDS Newsletters are also found at this site. Here is the link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57917793/CFDS Newsletter/CFDS_Newsletters.html The CFDS plans to hold Continuing Education events across Canada at five locations which are: ñ Esquimalt ñ Edmonton ñ Ottawa or Petawawa (probably June 2013 in Petawawa) ñ Valcartier ñ Halifax ñ Two of these will conduct Symposium events that will include Golf or Curling annually ---------------------------------------------------------- Halifax Function When: Mon 4 Feb 2013 @ 1900 hrs Where: The Bridge in Juno Towers (Officers/Senior NCMS Mess, CFB Halifax) Cost: $ 20 Dress Code: Casual, no jeans RCDCA members and any former dental persons/All ranks and civilians Contact Captain K. McNeil 1 Dental Unit Detachment Halifax Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 5X5 [email protected] Telephone 902-721-8994 Thank you This newsletter and others are the result of input /advice and many hours of work by a few people and they deserve credit and recognition. Thank you to all who helped. We are thankful to Mike Pilon, Jerry Craig, Mary Ellen Jensen-Grubb, Morley Deyette, Bill Fallon, Peter Darlington,Hal Wood, Peter Psaila, Dick Lobb, Peter Lobb, Dan Fraser and Brian Vandervaart. Thanks to you all. Please keep in mind the Dental Corps 100th Birthday will be in 2015 so start looking for old photos as we plan to gather as much of our history as possible. If you have an idea or old photos or past copies of RCDC and CFDS quarterlies talk to us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are now only two RCDCA e-mail groups: In the past we had four main RCDCA e-mail groups: 1. RCDCA news 2. RCDCA humor 3. Conference of Defense Association news 4. Military matters However, spam, or junk e-mail is a problem so therefore Internet Service Providers such as Rogers. Shaw, Cogeco, Sympatico, Hotmail and Gmail have set up limits as to how many people can be on the same e- mail list. I now am forced to break RCDCA news and RCDCA humor into four groups. As a result my workload in sending e-mails takes a lot of time so therefore I have rolled military matters and the Conference of Defence Association news into the RCDCA news. If you find you are not receiving RCDCA news and RCDCA humor please send me an e-mail and I will try to rectify the matter. CFDS HONORARY COLONEL The RCDCA welcomes Colonel Boivin to the CFDS and as a new RCDCA member Colonel Claude Paul Boivin Having served in senior leadership positions both in Canada and abroad, Claude Paul has acquired extensive management experience in professional and trade associations and in international development. He is currently Executive Director of the Canadian Dental Association which represents Canada’s 18,000 dentists. Prior to that, Claude Paul served for seven years as President of the Association of Canadian Engineering Companies, representing the interests of a $13 billion a year industry, and for 10 years as Executive Director of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association. He also held key positions with the International Development Research Centre over a period of 16 years, working and living in Africa and traveling extensively around the world. Claude Paul holds the professional designation of Certified Association Executive (CAE) and is also an experienced facilitator specializing in strategic planning. He has been very active in the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE), having served as Chair of the National Board and President of the National Capital Chapter. For nine years, he was on the Board of the Government Relations Institute of Canada as Treasurer and Secretary. In 2002, Mr. Boivin was made Honorary Life Member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and became the first non-veterinarian recipient of the organization’s President’s Award. In 2005, he was the recipient of the “Executive Member of the Year” award of the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) National Capital Region. In 2011, Mr. Boivin was appointed as Honorary Colonel of 1 Dental Unit of the Canadian Army. The RCDCA and The Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) The RCDCA is a full member of the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) and BGen (Ret’d) JF Begin, VP of the RCDCA, is our CDA representative. It is appropriate that all RCDCA members be informed about the CDA therefore some details on the CDA are below followed by a report by General Begin. The Conference of Defence Associations was established in 1932 to study the problems of defence and security and to promote the efficiency and well-being of Canada’s Armed Forces. More than 75 years later, the CDA is still the leading national voice on those original issues which have expanded to include national sovereignty, individual liberty and freedom, and developments around the globe which affect the peace and security of Canada. The CDA is the oldest and most influential advocacy group in Canada’s defence community, representing fifty-one (51) associations from all parts of the country. The CDA expresses its ideas and opinions with a view to influencing government security and defence policy. It is a non-partisan, independent, and non-profit organization. The objectives of the CDA are: ñ Consider the problems of national security; ñ Assist the Government of Canada in placing these problems before Canadians; ñ Co-ordinate the activities of member associations in matters of common interest affecting all Branches and Services of the Canadian Forces; ñ Make recommendations to the Government of Canada through the Minister of National Defence, various Parliamentary Committees and other appropriate channels. ñ Promote the efficiency and well being of the Canadian Forces. More details may be seen on the CDA website http://cda-cdai.ca/cda/ Conference of Defense Associations The Conference of Defense Associations is an organization dedicated to promoting the military community at large, to developing briefs and position papers on matters of defense for the chief of defense, the Canadian government and the broad military community. The CDA consists of thirteen voting member Associations, including RCDCA, and upwards of 38 associate/affiliated military organizations across the country. The CDA convenes two Council meetings each year in February and November, and hosts the CDA Institute two day conferences in February each year. This conference brings together guest speakers from NDHQ, the Government and senior ranking military and civilian leaders from Canada and allied nations to present and discuss matters relating to military strategic plans, operations, and current world events. The CDA-CDAI hosts the Vimy Award Dinner and presentation, and the Ross Monroe Award Ceremony recognizing a distinguished reporter/columnist from the media. I attended the November tenth 2012 meeting of the CDA Council held in Ottawa. Each Association gave a presentation detailing current activities and concerns at the local and regional levels, with emphasis on finances, membership and recruitment, social, historical, communications and other activities. A few of the Associations have memberships numbering in the thousands, such as the Legion, the Air Force Association, the Naval Association, the Armored, Artillery and Infantry Associations. Lesser Associations include Engineers, Logistics, Military Police and Dental. Major discussions focused on matters of finance, local activities, Association scholarship programs, publicity and communications, and the Outreach/Awareness program intended to inform the public, industry, the media and government on matter and concerns related to the security of Canada. An excellent presentation and question and answer period was presented by the Vice Chief of the Defense Staff, Vice Admiral Donaldson. He touched on many topics including current operations, relations with the media, the defense budget and cutbacks, current and future capital procurement programs, cyber security, and medium and long range planning.