Statement of Andrea Sandau
University Relations Officer, Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)
On Tuesday June 6, 2006 in the early afternoon, between approximately 2:00pm-4:00pm, I spoke with Ms. Margo Dunnet in the Board of Directors office of the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) (MBC 2220) regarding one of the SFSS’s employees, Ms. Hattie Aitken, the Graduate Issues and University Relations Coordinator.
In that conversation, prior to the commencement of an investigation that led to Ms. Aitken’s firing, Ms. Dunnet informed me that the SFSS was planning to fire Ms. Aitken. I did not realize it at the time, but it would soon become clear that the investigation was launched specifically for the purpose of generating the justification for her termination. I believe this decision to fire Ms. Aitken was already made prior to the discovery of the evidence upon which her firing was allegedly based.
During that conversation, on that June afternoon, I stated that I had to schedule a meeting with Ms. Aitken within the next few days, before I was to leave for Europe. I did not know Ms. Aitken well, so I asked Ms. Dunnet for suggestions about how to interact with Ms. Aitken. Ms. Dunnet responded, “You won’t have to worry about her when you get back anyway.” I asked Ms. Dunnet, “Why, are you guys gonna’ fire her?” Ms. Dunnet smiled and nodded. She replied: “Yeah, we’re looking at letting her go. We don’t trust her. She attempted to bring speculation upon the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) at the CFS conference in May by publicly asking inappropriate questions during some of the meetings, and she missed most of the workshops she was supposed to attend.” I asked some questions about the CFS conference, but I asked no further questions about this employment issue.
At the time that Ms. Dunnet shared this information with me, we shared a positive working relationship, having recently run on the same political slate, “Common Sense.”
I shall post a scanned copy of this affidavit when it becomes available.
5 Comments:
It would be nice if everyone would calm down and find out what the facts are instead of all the speculation with reference to the termination of aitken. It seems that everyone is only interested in proving the other side wrong and the entire situation has gotten completely out of hand.
I heart Titus
anonymous #1: According to Andrea Sandau, this affadavit here is one of the facts that you say we should find out. It also meshes well with what i know of the CFS and how they try to attack any dissent, so i don't doubt this account of things.
What is the next course of action, I think everyone should continue to protest the sit in was great!
I attended the financial meeting last May that was spoken about here. Several other people as well brought up questions regarding the DSU and 'loans' in general. I wish I had kept my notes on the specifics of what was said.
I can attest though from my several years experience dealing with the inner circle of the CFS that such a reaction to Miss Aitken's queries as have been alledged to have happened here are pretty much modus operandi. I'm not surprised in the least. I remember sitting in the meeting and thinking 'well here's a few people who will be in trouble later.'
I have many stories I could tell about how all these people and schools are connected as probably many cfser's and ex-cfsers do but unfortunately no concrete 'proof' to back things up. It stinks really and drove me absolutely crazy when I was involved.
Learned alot though, about just how bad and sneaky peopla can be as well as just how easy it is to pretty much manipulate a huge organization with a realtively small group of people. Fascinating...
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