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The Objectives of the Association are as follows:
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To provide a forum for the congress of
provincial recreational paddling organizations.
- To promote, foster and perpetuate canoeing and
kayaking as an educational, cultural, historic and constructive
recreational experience;
- To represent organized recreational paddling and
the canoeing and kayaking public on a provincial level and to represent
their collective interests to the Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador.
- To promote and maintain relations with other
provincial and national organizations having a similar objective.
- To
encourage the development and recognition of standards in canoeing and
kayaking and to encourage certification of leadership training and levels
of achievement in canoeing and kayaking under the nationally sanctioned
Paddle Canada’s (PA’s) canoeing and kayaking standards.
- To study all aspects of canoeing, kayaking and
related undertakings and to interpret and disseminate information,
knowledge and standards concerning development and regulations thereto.
- To
support the concept of the stewardship of the land as well as to support
and promote strategies relevant to the welfare of the environment wherever
such support is requested from provincial paddling organizations or the
national body (Paddle Canada) and to develop cooperative networks with
kindred organizations in the field of environmental concerns.
- To encourage training programs and conferences
on a provincial level for leaders and other personnel.
- To support efforts by other provincial,
territorial and/or federal interest groups to ensure the protection and
perpetuity of canoeing and kayaking as a unique Canadian and Newfoundland
and Labrador heritage.
- To
represent the interests of the province’s recreational paddlers at the
national level by having a representative on the Paddle Canada’s (PA’s)
Board of Directors, and to disseminate information on that Board’s
activities to NLPA member organizations.
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