upsetparent wrote:
Athletics Ontario is not getting a GD dime from my family in 2016
we don't need them
screw you AO
If you and your family are only involved in the high school/university scene, then yeah, you could probably do just fine ignoring all things AO, especially if you've got a good school team/coach that runs a program beyond the varsity season (and doesn't expect you to be a AO club member). Any summer meets you want to compete at will likely require an extra entry fee to cover the insurance normally provided by AO to AO members competing at AO meets, but sounds like that's not an issue for you.
But it seems a little disjointed to be wanting to boycott AO because a small committee appears to have made some biased decision making in awarding carding money (which comes from the ministry and not AO itself) to a handful of athletes instead of a different handful of athletes.
Unless it is you or your family who are one of the affected athletes in which case you apparently aren't going to give a GD dime to AO because AO didn't give a GD dime to you/your family.
Of course, not having anything to do with AO means you/your family will not be competing at AO or AC championship meets and therefore won't be getting any of the presumably needed points to be eligible for Q4G carding, so you certainly won't be getting a GD dime from AO (or more accurately, through AO) next year either.