La Caisse

La Caisse Populaire des Fanatiques Partisans du Hockay opened on 29 September 2026. The site lists it as La Caisse—Keep Hockay independent. Fourteen citizens were on the roll by the end of its first week, and sixteen at the close of Season 3.

A caisse populaire is owned by the people who use it. This one holds no deposits, issues no credit and pays no interest. Le Council admits it is not a bank in any sense a regulator would accept, and has stopped looking for a better word.

Why Le Council opened it

La Caisse is Le Council’s answer to Graine Wetsky Funds.

In Le Council Has Refused Nothing (29 September), Le Council set out ten weeks of the record. The Funds asked for two things and were granted both, then stopped asking. They own the machines in the buildings the league plays in, and they had just given the league a free sheet of ice for the Final. Le Council found no breach. It found that it could not refuse an institution that gives, continuously and at its own expense:

Le Council’s no costs nobody anything.

It did not ask citizens to boycott anything. It asked for its own money:

Le Council is asking to be put in a position where its no costs somebody something.

A fund is a quantity held in common against a future that somebody has thought about in advance. For ten weeks there had been only one fund in Hockay to answer whose future. There is now a second.

Sociétaire, not shareholder

A member is a sociétaire: a member-owner. The word is the argument.

A shareholder is owed a return and a sociétaire is not, which is precisely why a sociétaire can be told no and a shareholder cannot.

A sociétaire owns nothing in any legal sense. There is no equity, no return and no vote in any real entity. The Terms of Service say so at length (§10).

What it costs

A figure of your choosing, in whole dollars, from $12 to $120 a year.
It renews automatically once a year at that figure, on the same card, until stopped.
Change or stop it from your account page at any time. Stopping takes effect at the end of the year already paid. No reason is asked.
Refunds: in full, if asked within fourteen days of a charge, through the contact form.
Payment is taken by Stripe. Hockay never sees card details. 1% of every membership goes to carbon removal through Stripe Climate.
This section of the Terms answers to the law of Québec, not to the laws of The Almighty Ice.

What it offers

Capacity and cosmetics. Nothing else.

An extra STAMP. A sociétaire may attend parish and endorse a petition on the same day. It is still one Seal:

Membership does not give you two Seals. It stops the two things competing for the one you already had.
An extra binder. When La Caisse opened, that meant two hundred cards instead of one hundred; the ordinary binder has since grown to 150 slots. If membership lapses, nothing is taken back. The second binder simply stops accepting new cards until you return.
The sociétaire seal. A mark on your profile, your forum posts and your petition receipts, and your name on the roll. “It confers nothing. It says you are on the roll.”
A private channel on the Discord, for members. Le Council will not be describing what is discussed in it.
A discount at the Official Procurement Desk, by a code given on admission, when one is running. Sometimes there is also a members’ collection, unlisted rather than locked.

What it does not offer

One rule governs every item above:

The Caisse does not sell civic voice.

Not at twelve dollars, not at one hundred and twenty. A sociétaire’s Seal is one Seal a day. A sociétaire’s vote weighs what their shares weigh, and not one share more. Deliberately absent:

Higher betting limits, better odds, or any advantage in Looneys or shavings.
Extra Seals, or extra weight in any vote or petition.
Anything at all that another citizen cannot have for free.

Le Council also declines to sell the removal of advertising, should the Funds ever place any, on the grounds that the Funds write the best material on the site and that selling less of the story is not a business Le Council wishes to be in.

Le Council does not enjoy promoting commerce. Le Council does enjoy keeping the lights on.

The roll

The roll is public, at the foot of the Caisse page: every sociétaire, in the order Le Council admitted them, with a count. Once there are five or more members it also shows the median annual contribution. “The roll says who. It does not say how much.”

Each new sociétaire receives an admission slip headed ADMITTED TO THE ROLL:

The roll confers capacity and a mark. It confers no additional voice, no weight in any vote and no advantage in any market, and Le Council sets that down here so that it may be checked later.

Le Council thanks the sociétaire and will not be making a further speech about it.