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“… Motion 35 was the brainchild of incoming Chairperson James Coccola who wants to add a disabled students’ rep to the CFS national exec. Coccola points out the CFS has failed to advocate for disabled students’ issues despite a motion passed at the disability caucus of last year’s AGM. However, the CFS exec has shown itself to be fundamentally dysfunctional in its relations with student unions, and their campaigns and services are typically of poor quality, a reality that adding a disabled students’ rep will not solve. Gregory also provides evidence in his paper Solidarity for Their Own Good that CFS campaigns are frequently created by long-serving staff in collaboration with a few execs–the evidence is from CFS-Ontario, but given the overlap between the federation’s beanches it may be case for CFS National as well. (pages 130-136.)
Accessibility issues usually require lobbying university administration rather than the government, and the former seems to have little attraction to the CFS and pro-CFS student union execs. The staunchly pro-CFS RSU does not even meet accessibility requirements in its own elections and the RSU exec is currently being sued over their treatment of two staff members for the Ryerson Access and Pride constituency groups. Plaintiff and disabled student Frank Nyitray, who worked for RyeAccess, was banned from the RSU student centre, meaning he couldn’t access his own group’s resources. Toby Whitfield, RSU vice-president and longtime CFS activist, is co-defendent in the lawsuit. Whitfield has campaigned off-campus for a pro-CFS slate at the University of Toronto and was listed in the CFS’ 2008 referendum “war plan.”
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