Bulletin - July 22, 2015

President Cosmo led us with 0 Canada

Invocation by Roger

Guest tonight was Don Macnamara

Guest tonight was Doug Kleckner

 

1. Rotary International President Ravindran welcomes us all to a new Rotary year and wishes us all a successful year in our endeavours!

 

2. South Cowichan Rotary event August 15 and 16.

 

3. Ian kindly requests all the car raffle tickets and cash be returned by July 29 for the raffle draw on August 9

 

4. Colwood Arts and Wine Festival July 26 11-4pm at Fort Rodd Hill Park.

 

Don Macnamara is a retired Brigadier General, an authority on national and international security affairs.  National security is the most important service a government can do for its people Let's look up and open your eyes....  What's actually going on?  Look at worldwide issues: wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, terrorism, political and economic restructuring, WMDs, oil, resources, refugees, drugs, environmental/ climate issues and conflicts.  Our Canadian values of security, prosperity, stable world order, freedom, human rights and social justice need to be considered in a national security plan.  Critical thinking is needed for strategies, policy making and strategic intelligence.

Trade is the key issue to create worldwide wealth.  Canada lives in a complex, turbulent world and is vulnerable physically, politically and economically....  Consider Canada's worldwide ranking: area #1, coastline #2, power index #14.  The current Defence Strategy is from 2008: Defend Canada, Defend North America, Peacekeeping, Our military and police forces/ RCMP are overstretched and underfunded.  With the upcoming elections let’s get some answers to What is the national strategic plan for Canada?  Think about...Where you sit depends on where you stand.

 

Leta collected happy dollars from all the members in their appreciation of a wonderful speaker - Don Macnamara, and Roger getting his boat ready!

 

John drew a white marble, better luck next week!

 

Greeter/Notetaker: Rob Christie 

Door Duty: Hermann

Sergeant at Arms:  Jack Gallop

 

NEXT WEEK’S GUEST SPEAKER - Dave Thibault: overview of Victoria Real Estate!

Meeting adjourned.