[Tcadvisors] Re: [Advisors] Re: cira elections unsolicited e-mail

Beautiful!!! Well done, Evan. Marita On 2025-09-25 1:56 p.m., Evan Leibovitch wrote: This was my response to the spam: Mathew, You don't know me and I don't know you. I can only assume that you have obtained my email address through a list you have obtained of CIRA members. I consider your use of this list unethical as I have not received similar such mail from other candidates, as well as a likely violation of CASL since I have not given consent to you to receive this kind of solicitation. I am CCing this response to elections(a)cira.ca and trust they will consider the seriousness of this breach of trust. On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM Marita Moll <mmoll(a)ca.inter.net&gt; wrote: > Wow, Ian!! I did not even know that. Thank you. > > Unfortunately, when you are up against someone who uses the member list > to solicit votes, it completely skews the playing field. And so, sadly, I > got an unsolicited message from Matthew Gamble asking for my vote to give > him a 3rd term. Anyone here who is a CIRA member probably got one too. > Unless you know Mr. Gamble through your profession or social circles, it is > completely legal but still in contravention of the spirit of these > elections as per the following item on the CIRA elections information page: > > "While CIRA is obligated by law to provide the list, we take the privacy > of member information seriously. CIRA strongly encourages members who > receive the list to only contact those members who are part of their > professional and/or social circle and to refrain from sending unsolicited > mass emails to respect members’ privacy. CIRA also requires that any email > sent to members not include tracking links and that members’ information > remain in Canada." > > I have already forwarded my copy of the mailing to elections(a)cira.ca > along with paragraph from the elections page. I encourage anyone here who > feels so inclined and has no contacts with Mr. Gamble to also contact > elections(a)cira.ca objecting to the practice. Even if you have already > deleted that e-mail, they already have a copy from me. The more people who > contact them, the better. Most of the current "encouragement" paragraph > only exists as I have fought back each time asking the board to set some > conditions when I received information from many of you about this practice > and issues like tracking links included in the message. At the end of this, > whoever wins, I will, once again be contacting the board about how unfair > this is to all candidates who put themselves forward on the member slate > and asking them to find a better way to deal with this problem. > > Sorry for the long e-mail and thanks for all your support. > > Marita > > > On 2025-09-25 12:54 a.m., Ian! D. Allen wrote: > > Not only did Marita make the candidate list, she was the candidate with the largest number of endorsements! > https://www.cira.ca/en/board-and-governance/board-election/endorsement-re... > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 07:43:49PM -0400, Marita Moll wrote: > > Hi advisors. If you are a CIRA member, you should have received a notice that > the election period is now open -- one week only. I did make the final > candidate list on the members slate, so you can choose to vote for me, if you > wish. > Marita > > _______________________________________________ > Advisors mailing list -- advisors(a)tc.ca > To unsubscribe send an email to advisors-leave(a)tc.ca > _______________________________________________ Advisors mailing list -- advisors(a)tc.ca To unsubscribe send an email to advisors-leave(a)tc.ca