Campusconservativewatch's Blog

It appears that campaigners for the UWO campus Conservative-led initiative to pull out of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) have failed to oust the president of the graduate student union, Rick Telfer. It is widely speculated that this move against Telfer was related to his opposition to the attack campaign being leveled against the CFS by Conservatives and their supporters. Organizers required a 2/3 majority vote, but failed to secure support from even half of the voters. The final vote of 58% in favour of keeping Telfer, is the same percentage that elected him previously, demonstrating that Conservative muckraking hasn’t had much of an effect on UWO graduate students. Hopefully, students don’t take this victory sitting down, but use the momentum to push back against other Conservative initiatives on that campus.