Nomination of Directors

2.1. The Fund president shall include in the notice of any general meeting at which there is to be an election of directors, a notice that nominations are open, the number of vacant director positions and an invitation for applications.

2.2. The Fund president will make a request to staff to announce to GPC party members that Fund director nominations are open, with an invitation to apply.

2.3. The application must include the nominee’s name, their relevant experience, qualifications including any law or accountant qualifications, any equity declaration, an agreement to a police check and the name of one nominating Fund member.

2.4. The elected Fund Representative is considered to have been nominated for director by members and need not apply.

2.5. Fund members may make two nominations from all applicants and are encouraged to collaborate to sponsor nominees from equity seeking groups that experience significant disadvantage and discrimination due to systems of oppression, which may include women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, racialized persons, and LGBTQIA2S+ identified individuals comprising a variety of ages and experience.

2.6. The list of applicants will be made available to Fund members no later than twenty one days before the General Meeting and Nominations close fourteen days before the General Meeting of Fund members at which the results are to be announced.

2.7. By ten days before the meeting of Fund members, the Fund president shall circulate a nominations report to Fund members of all the nominations received.