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    The University of Regina Students' Union (URSU) is seeking a court injunction against the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) to force the counting of provisional ballots from a recent referendum. Members of the CFS Referendum Oversight Committee have not returned to finish counting ballots, leaving University of Regina students waiting for final results. While some ballots have been verified, the CFS is refusing to continue counting until the eligibility of votes from First Nations University of Canada students is decided, despite a prior agreement. URSU President Kyle Addison says the injunction is a last resort to get all agreed ballots counted before Christmas.

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    The University of Regina Students' Union (URSU) is seeking a court injunction against the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) to force the counting of provisional ballots from a recent referendum. Members of the CFS Referendum Oversight Committee have not returned to finish counting ballots, leaving University of Regina students waiting for final results. While some ballots have been verified, the CFS is refusing to continue counting until the eligibility of votes from First Nations University of Canada students is decided, despite a prior agreement. URSU President Kyle Addison says the injunction is a last resort to get all agreed ballots counted before Christmas.

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    The University of Regina Students' Union (URSU) is seeking a court injunction against the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) to force the counting of provisional ballots from a recent referendum. Members of the CFS Referendum Oversight Committee have not returned to finish counting ballots, leaving University of Regina students waiting for final results. While some ballots have been verified, the CFS is refusing to continue counting until the eligibility of votes from First Nations University of Canada students is decided, despite a prior agreement. URSU President Kyle Addison says the injunction is a last resort to get all agreed ballots counted before Christmas.

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    December 2, 2010

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    CANADIAN FEDERATION OF STUDENTS REFERENDUM


    RESULTS CONTINUE BEING DELAYED

    The University of Regina Students’ Union (URSU) today announced that it will seek a court injunction
    against the Canadian Federation of Students’ (CFS), in an effort to push forward the CFS referendum
    ballot counting process.

    Members representing the Canadian Federation of Students on the Referendum Oversight Committee
    (ROC) have not returned to Saskatchewan to finish counting the provisional ballots, which means
    University of Regina students have been forced to continue to wait for the final results of the CFS
    referendum which took place in late October.

    While provisional ballots have been verified by the U of R Registrar’s Office, the counting delay comes as
    a result of a disagreement between URSU and the CFS regarding the eligibility of First Nations University
    of Canada (FNUC) students to vote in the referendum. An agreement was reached by members of the
    ROC to count all agreed upon eligible voters prior to ballot counting the morning of October 29, 2010,
    including the provisional non-FNUC student ballots. The decision on eligibility of the FNUC student votes
    was to be left undecided until it was determined that the FNUC student votes held the balance of the
    outcome. The CFS is now claiming that they will not continue with the ballot counting process until the
    eligibility of FNUC student votes is decided, despite the prior agreement that was reached on October 29,
    2010.

    “It is unfortunate that students have to wait this long to find out what the end result of the referendum is,”
    URSU President Kyle Addison said. “This court injunction application we are pursuing against the CFS
    comes as a last resort; we are only doing this to get all the agreed upon eligible ballots counted, in hopes
    that students will be able to find out the end result before Christmas.”

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    For more information, contact:

    Brennen Schmidt
    University of Regina Students’ Union
    Communications Co-ordinator
    Office: (306) 586-8811 Ext. 216
    Email: [email protected]

    University of Regina Students’ Union 221 Riddell Centre, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2

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