CFS Suing GSA for $936,000

Last year, the GSA filed a law suit demanding that the CFS respect the democratic will of Concordia graduate students in voting to withdraw from the CFS.  The CFS responded with a demand of their own: you can’t leave, and give us a million bucks.

In the response the CFS claims fees going back almost twenty years, including fees owed to CFS-Q, which a Quebec court has already declared to be a completely independent entity from the CFS (CFS-Q was renamed Rassemblement des assosications etudiantes, or RAE, in 2010). In a previous letter to the GSA, the CFS claimed that the GSA owed “over $200,000″, but this is the first time the CFS has made a claim using legal proceedings.

The GSA, along with the CSU and MgGill’s PGSS, filed suit against the CFS to have referendums withdrawing from the CFS recognized. The CFS has steadfastly refused to recognize referendums or otherwise sought to prevent the withdrawal of around a dozen student associations in recent years. Last month, Simon Frasier’s SFSS announced that they had reached an undisclosed settlement with the CFS which saw the end of SFSS’s membership in the CFS.