Regardless of who you believe, I think it would be crazy to leave the CFS and the CFS – O, because it is the one organization that is able to lobby for lower tuition fees. Even if they have not succeeded in lowering tution fees, that’s no reason not to be part of the organization. To quit the CFS is pretty much a defeatist mentality, that we cannot lower tuition fees, so what’s the point of trying? And as for other independent organizations, they simply do not have the resources to effectively lobby on behalf of students.

I honestly think that the people who most passionately opposed the CFS don’t really care at all about tuition fees. What they really want is to attack the so-called left wing organizations and campaigns that the CFS is helping, like the anti-racism and Islamophobia campaign. It’s no wonder that the Campus Conservatives were handing out CFS-watch flyers about a month ago.

Clearly CFS Ontario is not acting in good faith here. Out west we had similar problems when student bodies decided they’d had enough of CFS’s shady tactics. Personally I think that while CFS does do some useful lobbying work on behalf of students, they have grown far beyond their original mandate and are a bloated and corrupt organization, and have abandoned the democratic principles upon which they were founded. If the CFS executive and management had any honour they would step up and accept the wishes of students. CFS’s actions have become a liability and an insult to students throughout Canada.