Carleton University Students' Association

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Carleton University Students' Association
MottoYour Student Association
Institution Carleton University
Location Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Established1942
PresidentMohamed “Faris” Riazudden
Vice presidentsSean Joe-Ezigbo, Logan Breen, Emilia De Jesus Peixoto, Patrick Ene, Eman Elnaidany
Members27 000
Website www.cusaonline.ca

The Carleton University Students' Association (or CUSA) is a non-profit corporation that represents the undergraduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Governance

Executive

Executive members of CUSA are elected yearly. The executive is responsible for improving CUSA services, working on the issues important to you, and carrying out the daily work of the Association. The 2023/24 executive members are:

New Governance Model

CUSA Council adopted the new governance structure on the advice of the Democratic Reform Committee and CUSA’s lawyers to comply with new provincial legislation and to expand decision making responsibilities and ethical safeguards. Students voted for change in 2021, and the restructuring will give students confidence their dollars are being used wisely by their students’ association in the future. [1]

Democratic Reform Committee

In October 2021, the CUSA Council was presented with the Democratic Reform Committee's Final Report. [2] Since 11 August 2021, the Democratic Reform Committee (DRC) had been meeting twice a week, every week to reestablish trust of students in CUSA that has recently been lost. Following the 2021 CUSA General Election, the 2021/2022 Executive committed to the project of democratic reform and struck this Committee. The Committee is composed of three students at large, five councilors, three non-voting CUSA Staff, one volunteer notetaker, and one member of the CUSA Executive.


The Committee began by consulting with John McNair, CUSA’s lawyer, who answered questions from Committee members about the state of CUSA’s Governance. Mr. McNair’s testimony only reinforced the harsh reality: CUSA’s bylaws and governing structures were seriously flawed and could provide opportunities for malicious lawsuits to the detriment of CUSA and the student body. Mr. McNair’s testimony imprinted the urgent need for full and total reform of CUSA governing structures – not only because reform would improve CUSA’s democracy, but because such modifications were vital to the maintenance of CUSA as an organization.


Following Mr. McNair’s interview, the Committee began inviting witnesses and guests with personal experience working in select fields pertinent to the Committee’s mandate, or who were known to have knowledge that could be especially worthy of the Committee’s time. Current and former CUSA full-time staff, including a former CUSA executive, were invited; current and the most recent former executives were invited; current and former student leaders from recently reformed students’ associations in Ontario were invited; and consultants from the student union movement in the United Kingdom were invited. All witnesses were agreed upon by Committee members in earlier Committee meetings. [2]


The Committee also organized four public forums for students-at-large to raise any questions, comments, or concerns regarding reforms to CUSA’s governance and elections systems. Students had a wide variety of concerns, comments, and suggestions for Committee members to consider; however, the Committee noticed there were a few issues with wide-spread support. Notably, students were generally opposed to the slate system and were concerned about the hiring process of CUSAs Electoral Officers. Additionally, students also found that CUSA struggles to provide clear communication to students about opportunities and operations. A series of former Electoral Officers also gave their testimony, but asked to remain anonymous for the sake of their mental health and well-being. These Officers vividly described the hate and vitriol received during their time in office and recommended that Electoral Officers not be selected from the student body. [2]

Summary of Recommendations by the Democratic Reform Committee
  • Recommendation One: As such, the Committee recommends that Council vote to endorse a merger of the Carleton University Students’ Association (“the Association”) and CUSA, Inc. (“the Corporation”).
  • Recommendation Two: The Committee recommends the creation and implementation of a well recruited, dutifully selected, properly trained, and expertly advised independent Board of Directors composed of 8 students-at-large and the CUSA President to focus on protecting the long-term future of CUSA from a financial, legal, and reputational perspective.
  • Recommendation Three: The Committee further recommends modifications to the voting rights, selection process, legal responsibilities, and oversight mechanisms as described above, of: CUSA President/Chief Executive Officer; CUSA Vice Presidents; and CUSA Councillors
  • Recommendation Four: The committee recommends the roles of executives become full-time at 35 hours per week.
  • Recommendation Five: The Committee recommends that only the President and CUSA Councillors be elected in at-large elections, with Vice Presidents selected in processes determined by CUSA council.
  • Recommendation Six: The committee recommends that limits be placed on how and when CUSA Executives are able to serve more than one term, including options such as nonconsecutive term limits, a limit of one term as an executive, or a “move up or move out” philosophy engrained in ByLaw.

Out of these 6 recommendations, only Recommendation Four was met with a serious debate from the 2021/2022 CUSA Council. The end result of the debate was to make the President's role a full-time position year around, with the Vice Presidents working full-time (35 hours/week) during the summer & part-time (25 hours/week) during the academic year. The President's role requires a 35 hour/week commitment throughout the 12 months, and the role may only take a limited number of courses - pertaining to approval by the CUSA Board.

CUSA Board

The CUSA Board holds responsibility for the long-term financial, legal, and reputational position of the corporation. As a Not-For-Profit Corporation, the CUSA Board is subject to all  relevant principles and  policies of the  Ontario government, provincial  law, and the Articles of  Incorporation. The Board is to ensure ethical fiscal management of CUSA by investing a fiduciary responsibility in members of the Board. [3]

Composition of the CUSA Board

  1. 8 student-at-large directors
  2. The CUSA President (ex-officio)
  3. The CUSA Vice President Finance/Secretary-Treasurer (ex-officio, non-voting)

Eligibility to be a Director

  1. Be a current Carleton Undergraduate student at the time of application, intending on remaining a Carleton Undergraduate student for the duration of the term of appointment
  2. Directors may not be employees of CUSA, unless occupying ex-officio positions (President/CEO, VP Finance/Secretary-Treasurer)
  3. Directors may not be sitting CUSA councillors, or CUSA councillors within the most recent academic year
  4. Directors may not be former CUSA executives
  5. Board Members may not maintain or hold fiduciary responsibility to another entity that could conceivably regularly conflict with their fiduciary responsibility to CUSA while a member of the Board.
  6. Directors shall not serve more than four calendar years on the CUSA Board.

Ascension to the Board

  1. Candidates for the board shall be reviewed and selected by the CUSA Board Nominating and Appointing Committee for ratification by CUSA Council
  2. CUSA Council will then vote to ratify or deny the selection
  3. All applicants so ratified will immediately ascend to the CUSA Board

Primary Responsibilities

  1. Inform strategic direction and organizational growth
  2. Provide oversight and accountability for the organization
  3. Monitor policies, procedures, and processes of decision making and resource allocation
  4. Approve the budget every year
  5. Comply with the Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (2010)

CUSA Council

The Vice Presidents are no longer be voting members of the CUSA council. Their seats was converted to student representative seats based on academic faculty enrolment. CUSA Council is responsible for hiring Vice Presidents and appointing the Board of Directors. The Council operates as a deciding body for the association's day-to-day business, holding power on advocacy & accountability actions of the Executive team, with a stronger emphasis on Presidential accountability as the President is the only elected body. The Vice Presidents work as "hired officers" of the association, accountable to the council & the board.

CUSA Executives

Firstly, of the executive positions, now only the Presidency is elected by students-at-large. The Vice Presidential roles have been redefined, with much of their power dispersed to other check-and-balance bodies within CUSA. Because of this, the positions were deemed to no longer rise to the level of student-at-large elections and will be selected, elected, and appointed by CUSA Council after the CUSA Presidential and Council election. [4] The CUSA Presidency role is a full-time role that requires a 35 hours/week commitment. The CUSA President will be responsible to the CUSA Board of Directors, CUSA Council, and the Not For Profit Corporations Act (2010). The CUSA President supervises the Executive Director on behalf of the CUSA Board and the Vice Presidents. [4]

Elections

CUSA holds general elections every year. With the land-slide win of a "No Confidence" vote in the 2022 CUSA General Elections & its consequent nullification due to the instant-runoff voting system, the association soon after reformed its electoral code. [5] The association now uses the single transferable vote system. [6] The association has been holding online elections since 2014. Voter turnout in 2017 was over 37%. [7] The voter turnout in the 2024 General Elections was 19.8%. [8]

Services

Businesses

Several businesses are provided by CUSA:

Service centres

The student union fees cover several services to students through service centres:

Clubs and societies

CUSA oversee's over 200 recognized clubs and societies. CUSA also offers a number of different services to clubs and societies. [11]

All clubs and societies, and services available to them, can be found at cusaclubs.ca

Controversies

Abortion rights

On December 5, 2006, CUSA voted 26-25-1-1 (26 in favour, 25 against, 1 abstaining, 1 absent) of supporting abortion rights, and discontinuing anti-abortion activism. This drew critical reactions from anti-abortion groups and from campus groups, such as the Carleton University Debating Society, [12] that said CUSA was stifling open debate. Those in favour of the motion defended it as ensuring "women's rights" on campus. [13] This vote was reversed in December 2012.[ citation needed ]

Shinerama cystic fibrosis fundraising controversy

Motion to Drop Shinerama Fundraising Campaign from Orientation Week

Whereas Orientation week strives to be [as] inclusive as possible;

Whereas all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve the their[ sic ] diverse communities;

And Whereas Cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men

Be it resolved that the CUSA representatives on the incoming Orientation Supervisory Board work to select a new broad reaching charity for orientation week.

Moved: Donnie Northrup
Seconded: Meera Chander [14]

In November 2008, the CUSA voted to drop its annual Shinerama cystic fibrosis fundraiser, in favour of a fundraiser for an as-yet-undetermined charity, because the illness is not "inclusive" enough. Shinerama is a fundraiser held at universities across Canada every fall in support of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF), first held in 1961; Carleton has participated for the past 25 years and has contributed nearly $1 million to the cause. [15]

Donnie Northrup, CUSA councillor representing the Faculty of Science, introduced the motion which stated that cystic fibrosis "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men" and that therefore, it was inappropriate for the CUSA to donate money to researching a cure. Supporters of the motion argued that "all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve the their[ sic ] diverse communities." [16] [17] [18]

Reactions and Criticism

The CUSA was criticized for this decision since the motion did not reveal the source of the claim that cystic fibrosis affects only Caucasians. In fact, the CCFF's website states that: "The disease is most common in caucasians, but it can affect all races." Nick Bergamini, a CUSA council member who represents Journalism students, stated that "They're playing racial politics with something that is supposed to bring people together – a charity." [16] Bergamini commented that "they see this, in their own twisted way, as a win for diversity. I see it as a loss for people with cystic fibrosis." [17]

Cathleen Morrison, who is the CEO of the CCFF, stated in an interview with CTV News that although cystic fibrosis "does affect Caucasian populations primarily," the term Caucasian includes people from South Asia, North Africa, the Persian Gulf and Israel. Morrison explained that "These are Caucasian populations. These people do not have white skin. They have CF, it now seems, in the same ratios as other Caucasian people who do have white skin." Morrison also stated that cystic fibrosis affects just as many young girls as boys. [19]

Jonathan Kay, a columnist for the National Post , blasted CUSA for this decision. Kay stated that "Even by the loopy standards of students governments, this has got to be a new low." Kay argued that cystic fibrosis, although it has a much higher rate of occurrence in caucasian males, affects all races and both genders. Kay also pointed out that many charity events raise money for breast cancer, even though it is primarily a female disease, and for Tay–Sachs disease, whose sufferers are almost exclusively Jewish. [20] Editorial and opinion articles from the Ottawa Citizen have also condemned CUSA's actions with the editorial declaring that "when [a student association] does something as ignorant and thoughtless as Carleton University's did this week, the country pays attention." [21] [22]

Subsequent response by CUSA

CUSA president Brittany Smyth later stated that the council has been considering rotating the beneficiary of Shinerama instead of always giving the money to one charity, arguing that "It's about people wanting to do something different." [16] Smyth said the colour of someone's skin wasn't at issue; rather, the decision was made to spread the university's fundraising efforts to other charities. In an interview with CTV news, Smyth stated that "There was some discussion about that issue but very small. Most of it was around just switching it up and doing something different for a change." [19]

CUSA released a statement on November 26 indicating that the association's council would revisit their decision. Smyth stated, "It has become clear that there is not an appetite at Carleton to change from [Shinerama]... The responsible thing to do is to reverse the decision," adding that "the motion was never meant to imply that raising funds for Cystic Fibrosis research was not a worthwhile cause." [23] Smyth announced an emergency meeting of CUSA's council to vote on a new motion to reinstate the charity. [24] A unanimous vote at that meeting revoked the earlier decision, approved the restoration of next year's Shinerama campaign and also approved the publication of an apology over the matter. Donnie Northrup, the council representative responsible for moving the original motion to cancel Shinerama, resigned his position at CUSA as did another councillor, Sean Maguire. However, over the summer of 2009 Northrup was acclaimed back into CUSA. The meeting also received petitions demanding the resignation of Smyth and certain other councillors, although no actions on these were immediately taken. [25] [26]

Disqualification of a President-Elect

On February 13, 2009, Bruce Kyereh-Addo of the Demand Better slate was found to be in violation of the Consolidated Electoral Code on multiple counts and subsequently disqualified. [27] To date, Kyereh-Addo's disqualification was upheld by the electoral board. [28]

2009 CFS referendum petition

During the 2009–2010 school year, a group of students launched a petition to hold a referendum on possible disaffiliation of CUSA from the CFS. Stated reasoning for this referendum was to counter issues such as the claimed ineffectiveness of the CFS and interference in other university's unions. [29] In a press release the petitioners stated that the CFS "made almost no gains as a lobby group in its 30 years of operation." [30] This was strongly denied by the CFS. [30]

After several weeks a counter petition was created to try to bar the issue from going to a university-wide vote, which was controversially [31] spearheaded by several CUSA officials. Soon afterward CUSA officially endorsed the counter-petition [32] by a vote of 17 in favour, 7 against and 9 abstaining. The motion also mandates that CUSA members must advocate in favour of the CFS. This has attracted more criticism toward CUSA by students who feel it should stay neutral and instead try to help students make an informed decision. [33] The pro-referendum petition ended up garnering over 2300 signatures before its submission to the CFS offices in Toronto. Despite being hand-delivered by a Bailiff, the CFS have stated they did not receive the petition. [34] A referendum at Carleton had previously been held in 1995, on the possibility of joining the newly formed Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), that lost narrowly. [35]

Disqualification of VP Student Services

In 2016, Ashley Courchene, a third year political science major, ran for Vice President Student Services under the slate Change. After winning the election by only 21 votes, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Matt Swain disqualified the Change slate due to an alleged infraction by the assistant campaign manager Ahmad Gitteh and presidential candidate Abdullah Jabber, which led to Ashley Courchene's disqualification. Mr. Courchene successfully appealed the disqualification to the Electoral Board. Your Carleton then successfully appealed to the Constitutional Board (which overrides the electoral board). [36] Mr. Courchene then went to the Ontario Superior Court, which reinstated him to the position of VPSS. Neither CUSA nor Your Carleton appealed the court's decision. [37]

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