Last updated: February 21, 2011 5:51 pm
Kailey Willetts — The Martlet (University of Victoria)
VICTORIA (CUP) — Students at the University of Victoria will have a chance to vote on their membership in the Canadian Federation of Students on at the end of March.
After a second day in the B.C. Supreme Court on Feb. 18, the UVic students’ society was granted a referendum date, despite the CFS’s claim that the society owes them more than $120,000.
“The Canadian Federation of Students had granted the UVSS a referendum contingent on us paying $120,000. The UVSS has always denied that we owed that money, so we went to court seeking an order that the referendum date be set for the 29, 30 and 31 of March,” said chairperson James Coccola.
“At the same time the CFS put forward their own motion to the court asking the court to declare that we owe $120,000.”
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While the court granted the UVSS petition and set a referendum date, the question of the alleged debt is still up in the air.
“The court did not rule on whether or not the UVSS owed that money,” said Coccola, adding that the judge felt the CFS had several earlier opportunities to bring up the alleged debt with the court and hadn’t.
“But the judge also allowed the opportunity for them at a future point to bring forward a petition for those fees.”
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