It is usually the Canadian Federation of Students’ job to marshal student protests, not to endure them. But that day, more than 50 students clutching lobster traps and signs reading “Canadian Federation of Suing” were gathered outside to vent their frustrations at a body they alleged had calcified into a conniving, amoral organization bent on hanging onto its disillusioned membership at all costs.
“They’re like a creepy ex-boyfriend who won’t let it go,” protester Melissa Kate Wheeler told student journalist Jane Lytvynenko.
As president of the Concordia Student Union, Ms. Wheeler was one of a vocal cadre of student leaders across Canada with Kafkaesque tales of petitioning to leave the Federation, only to be stopped by a years long odyssey of ignored calls, counter-tactics and legal action.
In the words of an official protest statement, “students can get into CFS, but can never get out.”
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Man am I happy my university never got in bed with the CFS.
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