The University of Victoria StudentsB次元官网网址� Society and the Canadian Federation of Students have finally parted ways for good.

On Saturday (March 9), members of the B.C. component of the federation (CFS-BC) voted to expel the UVSS, claiming payment on some $160,000 in past membership fees remain outstanding.

B次元官网网址淢embers were left with very little alternatives but to have them removed from the organization,B次元官网网址� said Zachary Crispin, spokesperson for CFS-BC.

The expulsion doesnB次元官网网址檛 come as a blow for the UVSS, which was scheduled to hold a referendum on terminating CFS-BC membership later this month.

B次元官网网址淲e are glad to see the question of UVSS membership in CFS-BC finally come to a resolution,B次元官网网址� said UVSS chairperson Emily Rogers.

UVSS members voted to leave the national CFS in a March 2011 referendum.

According to a release from the UVSS, the student society believed B次元官网网址渢hat its membership in the provincial component of the CFS, the CFS-BC, had also come to an endB次元官网网址� with the 2011 referendum. But the CFS-BC disagreed, and a hearing in the B.C. Supreme Court in 2012 supported the federationB次元官网网址檚 position.

Crispin says the weekend decision stems from current UVSS directors B次元官网网址渞efusing to acknowledge the debt.B次元官网网址�

Rogers says that despite cutting ties with the CFS, B次元官网网址渢he UVSS will continue to work on post-secondary issues.B次元官网网址�

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