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CEO, BC NOTARIES ASSOCIATION
Chad Rintoul
Spring is in the Air, and with Much More Optimism this Year!
While the challenges of the global pandemic are not behind us, there is light at the end of this tunnel.
I encourage you to take pride in the remarkable resilience we have all shown to adapt and thrive, even while having modified our social and professional habits to help keep our friends, families, and colleagues safe.
A sure sign of recovery crossed my desk in early March as the BCNA begins planning for our next in-person Conference, scheduled the BCNA will host an Annual Conference for Notaries, moving forward to focus on their continuing education needs. We will also hold a Virtual Annual General Meeting each Fall to provide members with an update on the Association and our endeavours on behalf of the profession.
With input received from members and stakeholders, the Strategic Plan identifies four key action areas for the Association. • Financial Stability • Continuing Education • Government Advocacy • Promoting Notaries
for February 25–27, 2022, at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre hotel. Please save the dates; we look forward to networking, continuing education, and exhibits from our valued industry partners.
Public health regulations permitting, and in keeping with the 2021–2023 Strategic Plan,
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Advancing any initiative is dependent on financial stability; we highly anticipate working with our partners at ProSuite and the BC Notary Foundation to ensure that those resources continue to support the operational capabilities of the Association to provide continuing education services to BC Notaries.
Our sponsors are also important partners in the success of the Association and the profession; we will look to ensure those relationships are mutually beneficial as we move ahead.
Controlling costs will continue to be a priority and, as such, The Scrivener will evolve. We will continue providing excellent educational and promotional opportunities as we aim to reduce print circulation and increase electronic distribution and the profile of the publication. The first of those steps will be to implement a tri-annual Scrivener production cycle by omitting the Summer edition of the magazine.
Continuing Education is identified as a growth area for the Association within the Strategic Plan as we look to go beyond the provision of Continuing Education credits for practising Notaries; we will develop curriculum for Notarial staff in areas such as conveyancing.
We will also seek support from The Notary Foundation to explore cost-effective means to provide regional education opportunities to Notary Chapters as we move into the second and third year of the Strategic Plan.
In cooperation with The Society of Notaries Public of BC as regulator, our joint partnership with Simon Fraser University remains of paramount importance; the Association will engage with SFU and Dr. Margaret Hall, Chair of the Master of Applied Legal Studies Program, to ensure SFU participation in our Continuing Education initiatives, and help facilitate the timely development of enhanced curriculum to enable potential expanded scopes of practice initiatives for BC Notaries.
I look forward to the challenges ahead and the direction our new Strategic Plan will provide both to management and the Board, as the BCNA advocates, educates, promotes, and supports Notaries throughout British Columbia! s Respectfully, Chad Rintoul, Chief Executive Officer
