By Amira Tekle
An external student advocacy organization, Students for Consent Culture Canada (SFCC), is behind UMSU’s recent lobbying push for the province to make changes to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) that it said will benefit survivors of sexual violence.
SFCC is “an organization dedicated to supporting anti-sexual violence advocacy and activism on campuses,” and has organizers and co-ordinators on campuses across Canada, including Allison Kilgour, a U of M law student and advocacy co-ordinator with SFCC.
UMSU president Jakob Sanderson and vice-president advocacy Sarah Bonner-Proulx met separately with Ralph Eichler, Manitoba’s minister of economic development and training, and Jamie Moses, the NDP MLA for St. Vital and official opposition critic for economic development and training, to discuss, among other things, the FIPPA proposal.
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