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The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is the largest student organization in Canada, representing 450,000 students across the nation in every province except Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The group is well known for its activism. Currently there are more than 450,000 students across Canada who are represented by the CFS. Founded in 1981 the CFS that battles for more than lower tuition and opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The CFS also manages the International Student Identification Card in Canada and owns the Travel Cuts travel agency. The also produce the Student Saver Discount card, and operate the National Student Health Network.

In 1995, after much dissatisfaction with the way CFS was run, several students' union's split off to form the Canadian Alliance of Students Associations, which has 19 member organizations. Some of the students' unions have returned as members, such as Carleton University Students' Association. In recent years, CFS has gained over 100,000 new members through larger schools like the University of Toronto and University of Windsor students joining the organization.

CFS brings together over 70 undergraduate, graduate, full-time, part-time, college and university students' unions.

History

In the last ten years, CFS has organized a series of actions to complement their lobbying of provincial and federal governments. In 1995, over 100,000 students came out to oppose the Liberal governments plan to introduce Income Contingent Loan Repayment Schemes. In Ontario, they organized a series of demonstrations to protest the former Conservative governments deregulation of tuition fees and reduction of provincial funding. In British Columbia, they played an active role in convincing the former NDP government to introduce tuition fee freezes and reductions.

February 4, 2004 was labelled the National Day of Action, as students from across Canada held demonstrations organized by the CFS, in protest to the skyrocketing tuition fees. This ongoing effort since CFS's founding has thus led to the tuition fee freezes for students in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador. This year(2004-2005) is the first time in a while that the majority of students in Canada are not facing an increase in tuition fees.

George Soule is the current National Chairperson of the organization.

External link

• Official Site

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