Legal Challenge

On May 23, 2019, the Canadian Federation of Students alongside the York Federation of Students filed an Administrative Legal Challenge to the Student Choice Initiative.

The Student Choice Initiative is a policy directive from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities that allows students to opt-out of ancillary fees (non-academic fees) that the government deemed non-essential.

Many of the non-essential fees include crucial student-run services and groups like students’ unions, campus publications, radio associations, food centres, cultural groups and more.