The Harper Conservatives are at it again! Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Kent (who this weekend made news announcing that “time is not right” for the return of democratically elected Honduran President Zelaya who was ousted in a CIA-sponsored coup) has been continuing the Conservative Party’s campaign of screwing around in students politics. Shame!
The access to information document is posted here.
Media release from York Federation of Students via Canada NewsWire:
TORONTO, July 6 /CNW/ - Emails secured through a recent Freedom of Information request revealed that Conservative MP Peter Kent, MPP Peter Shurman, and senior York University administrators were interfering in this year's general elections of the York Federation of Students (YFS). During the elections, Robert Tiffin, York University's Vice-President Students, warned the students' union not to disqualify candidates who were caught violating the elections rules because the University and members of Parliament "were watching the election closely." MP Peter Kent was later found to have assigned a key staff member to intervene in the election on behalf of a team of candidates. Both politicians appeared to ask if York would throw out the
results, despite no evidence of wrongdoing or any authority to do so.
Media release from York Federation of Students via Canada NewsWire:
TORONTO, July 6 /CNW/ - Emails secured through a recent Freedom of Information request revealed that Conservative MP Peter Kent, MPP Peter Shurman, and senior York University administrators were interfering in this year's general elections of the York Federation of Students (YFS). During the elections, Robert Tiffin, York University's Vice-President Students, warned the students' union not to disqualify candidates who were caught violating the elections rules because the University and members of Parliament "were watching the election closely." MP Peter Kent was later found to have assigned a key staff member to intervene in the election on behalf of a team of candidates. Both politicians appeared to ask if York would throw out the
results, despite no evidence of wrongdoing or any authority to do so.
