Canada’s youngest national financial planning association concluded its second annual general meeting in Ottawa Tuesday with a review of its activities over the past year and plans for a trip to Florida.

At the second national conference of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners, members re-elected chairman John Charette and vice chairwoman Marion Weisgerber, uncontested, for a second one-year term.

Managing director Keith Costello reviewed the group’s accomplishments over the past year, including the launch of the group’s Web site (www.cifps.ca), an improved errors and omissions plan, and a cooperative relationship with its equivalent organization in the U.S., the Financial Planning Association.

The CIFPs has grown to include 1,400 members, and hopes to have 2,000 by June 2005. The organization is on track to reach the target specified in its business plan, which called for 5,000 members in five years, according to Costello. He added that the CIFPs will lobby government on behalf of its members on regulatory issues and continue to emphasize education.

Costello announced that the next CIFPs annual conference and general meeting will take place in Niagara Falls, Ont. in June 2005. The 2006 conference is slated for Vancouver, and there are plans to hold the 2007 event in Orlando, Fla.

The CIFPs was incorporated in 2003 to represent and promote the CFP designation in Canada.