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This
article
was
quoted
from
the
Aug.
26
&
27
1999
Student
association
Retreat
report
"A
great
deal
of
time
was
spent
discussing
the
need
to
rewrite
the
'Constitution'
under
which
the
Student
Association
operates.
The
present
one
is
a
revision
of
a
constitution
originally
drafted
in
1992
and
is
no
longer
current
or
usable
in
many
areas
An
interim
constitution
was
prepared
in
1997
but
thrown
out
after
study
by
the
CFS
BC
Executive.
(No
copy
of
it
presently
exists
in
the
office)
It
was
decided
to
invite
Mark
Veerchamp,
BC
President
of
CFS,
to
attend
and
assist
in
the
final
draft
of
any
new
constitution.
The
project
was
to
be
tabled
until
the
new
SAX.
was
installed.
(Ellen
Bryden
took
it
upon
herself
to
prepare
a
new
tentative
constitution
in
conjunction
with
Mike
Gardner
from
CFS.
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By
Ray
Novak
Listen
to
the
media
and
you
might
become
convinced
that
Canadian
university
students
are
a
thoroughly
collectivist
is
this
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It
contains
many
areas
to
be
discussed,
and
some
items
to
be
totally
stricken
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inappropriate.)"
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in
the
minutes:
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general
discussion
about
the
value
versus
the
cost
factor
of
belonging
to
CFS.
Each
student
pays
$7.00
directly
to
the.
CFS
for
membership
fees.
The
one
greatest
expense
appears
to
be
sending
S.A.X.
members
to
CFS
events
where
nothing
is
discussed
except
CFS
wants
and
requirements;
and
how
to
sell
CFS
within
the
schools.
A
heated
discussion
ensued."
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It
is
certainly
not
infrequent
that
self-righteous
student
leaders
are
allowed
to
take
to
the
airwaves
declaring
my
generation's
outrage
over
private
health
care,
education
reform,
and
the
expansion
of
global
free
trade.
However,
though
I
have
spent
the
past
five
years
studying
at
Canadian
universities
you
won't
catch
me
wearing
a
"friends
of
medicare"
button
to
class.
Nor
am
I
likely
to
become
hysterical
at
the
suggestion
of
voucher
based
schooling.
Furthermore,
I
don't
have
a
lot
of
sympathy
for
Svend
Robinson,
his
damaged
pants,
or
any
of
his
fellow
"victims"
at
last
month's
free
trade
conference
in
Quebec
City.
Nonetheless,
I
realized
long
ago
that
my
voice
had
been
appropriated
by
the
purveyors
of
left
wing
clap-trap
who
lay
claim
to
Canada's
student
movement.
Yet
despite
this
realization,
it
was
with
added
horror
that
I
recently
witnessed
my
dollars
being
expropriated
in
support
of
the
same
dubious
cause.
Now,
along
with
tens
of
thousands
of
other
Canadian
university
students,
I
am
forced
to
fund
the
ideological
adventures
of
student
leaders
who
have
appointed
themselves
to
speak
on
my
behalf.
The
culprit
in
this
case
is
the
notorious
Canadian
Federation
of
Students
(CFS),
a
student
lobby
group
that
recently
expanded
into
the
University
of
Calgary.
Purporting
to
represent
400,000
Canadian
university
students,
the
CFS's
list
of
affiliates
reads
like
a
whose
who
of
the
Canadian
left,
including
the
Action
Canada
Network,
the
National
Action
Committee
on
the
Status
of
Women,
the
Council
of
Canadians,
the
gay
rights
group
EG
ALE,
as
well
as
practically
every
large
labour
union
in
the
country.
In
co-operation
with
these
"partners"
the
CFS
campaigns
for
a
variety
of
narrow
ideological
goals
such
as
the
right
to
free
education
and
government
funded
national
day-care.
At
the
recent
FTAA
conference
in
Quebec
City,
CFS
officials
cheer-
t
ily
gave
interviews
beside
the
infamous
fence,
while
the
Ontario
wing
of
the
organization
publicly
endorsed
pledges
to
shut
down
the
conference
and
its
agenda
of
"capitalist
globalization".
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