CFS “lobby” efforts a scam
September 30, 2009
Re: “Grad students split on CFS membership”
Sept. 24, 2009
To the editor:
It’s about time that a national campaign was initiated to disaffiliate from the Canadian Federation of Students. In my opinion at least, CFS is nothing more than one big, elaborate scam. They take our money through student fees, the dozen companies they manage — including Travel Cuts — and claim to lobby on our behalf.
Despite everything we pay them, CFS has consistently failed to give us anything in return — including results from their “lobbying.” Organizations or individuals that take people’s money without giving them any good or service in return are a scam.
Indeed, I fail to understand why CFS exists, and more importantly, why people [have supported] it for many years now. This is an organization that receives millions and millions of dollars worth of student money every year and does not actually do anything for students.
And no, designing fancy advertisements that seek to justify its own existence does not count as protecting student rights, especially when the money for those ads is money collected by the CFS from students.
I bid good luck to the many organizers across the country who share the belief that the CFS is little more than a scam. Though heaven knows they will pour thousands of student dollars — or more — into the campaign to prevent this disaffiliation campaign from actually happening, I remain optimistic that people will be able to cast them aside when everything is said and done.
—Rachel Wasserman
Arts II
Ed note: CFS currently represents Western’s graduate student body on a national level, whereas the undergraduate student body is represented by the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations.
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