According to the Regroupement des comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec (RCLALQ) – an organization that protects Quebec’s renters – about 450,000 renter households in the province spend over 30 per cent of their income on shelter costs, which is the limit for what the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) defines as affordable.

These claims are rejected, however, by the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec (CORPIQ), a group that protects landlords.

Hans Brouillette, a media representative for CORPIQ, explained the average income of tenants across Quebec has by and large far outpaced the amount that tenants spend on rent.

“The cities of Montreal, Quebec, Gatineau, and Sherbrooke are all places where tenants earn much more money than the 30 per cent point,” Brouillette said. “Tenants pay much less [in Quebec] than anywhere else in the country.”

While statistics from the 2006 census show that 35.6 per cent of Quebec renter households spend more than the 30 per cent threshold – the second-lowest in Canada and only 0.1 percentage points above last-place Manitoba – the census data also backs up RCLALQ, listing 448,840 renter households in Quebec spending over that limit.

Another point of contention is whether rent increases are fair. The Régie du logement, the Quebec Rental Board, recommends an average percentage by which a landlord can raise a tenant’s rent yearly, based on what kind of heating system is used. Under the 2008 guidelines, landlords are allowed to increase rent by 0.5 per cent to 1.3 per cent, with adjustments made for property tax increases and major renovations.

CORPIQ stated that rent increases from 2007 to 2008 have been in accordance with the guidelines set out by the Régie. RCLALQ, however, found that in 2007 the average rent increases in Montreal stood at four per cent, well above the Régie guidelines. This has been seen as a failure on the part of the current provincial government and of the controls set in place by the Régie, as landlords can propose any increase; tenants must know that they can dispute the increase, and if they don’t it is affected automatically.

Brouillette again refused to accept RCLALQ’s numbers, however, explaining that the guidelines created by the Régie do not fully take into account the building-specific costs paid by landlords, including taxes and renovations. Furthermore, he asserted that the numbers drawn up by RCLALQ came from the group’s own survey, which CORPIQ does not find to be reliable.

“All the numbers we have come from the CMHC or from Statistics Canada,” Brouillette said. “According to the CMHC, the average rent increase in 2007 was 2.7 per cent…. We don’t have the numbers for 2008 yet.”

He asserted that when actual landlords’ expenditures are taken into account, rises in rent are at the level that they should be.

The debate between the two organizations may be moot, however, since the Régie du logement claims not to be influenced by the statistics presented by either group. According to Jean-Pierre LeBlanc, a Régie representative, the organization independently uses Statistics Canada and the CMHC to calculate recommended yearly rental increases, as stated in Quebec law.

“[The organizations] may give suggestions and often they have meetings with the rental board where they will ask for what they want,” LeBlanc explained, “but it’s not the Régie who changes the law, it’s the government. The Régie is there to see that the law is respected by everyone.”

He added that both tenants and landlords have the right to approach the Régie with complaints about apartment leases, since the Régie acts as an independent tribunal that makes final decisions about the legality of rent increases. Furthermore, Brouillette was quick to point out that all tenants in Montreal have the right to refuse rental increases by their landlords without being evicted. Tenants must fill out a complaint to the Régie and wait on a decision.

“[RCLALQ] say[s] that the rent increase is higher than what the Régie recommends, but if it is higher, why don’t tenants just refuse the rent increase asked by their owner?” he said. “Of course they will win if the rent increase is above what it should be.”

Yet many tenants – particularly students new to Montreal – are unaware of their rights to refuse a rental increase; furthermore, it can take a long time for the rental board to hear a case. As such, many tenants simply accept rental increases, even if they are much higher than recommended.

Despite these contested issues, however, LeBlanc seemed certain that the Régie and its current system of issuing rent control recommendations are here to stay.

“The rent control that is presently legally issued by the Régie, I think it would continue,” he said. “For the near future, it’s sure that the Régie is still there.”

RCLALQ could not be reached for comment.

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Because the GA failed to reach qualified quorum – 397 or two per-cent of the total number of undergraduate students – motions passed must be ratified in an online 48-hour referendum active until Friday at 5 p.m.

According to Kay Turner, the SSMU general manager counted a total of 250 students come in and out of Three Bares Park, where the assembly was held, but the maximum present at one time was only 110.

Although the first motion, calling upon SSMU to offer logistical support to the Association of McGill Undergraduate Students Employees (AMUSE), passed swiftly, disagreement persisted over two motions that asked SSMU to condemn military recruitment and research into thermobaric weapons at McGill.

The motions’ author Cleve Higgins, U3 Sociology and International Development Studies, explained that scientific research at McGill has often received military funding exempt from ethical considerations.

“Some policies to regulate weapons research were developed [at McGill], but they don’t allow for transparency, and are without ethical considerations,” Higgins said.

He faced strong opposition from Adam Cytrynbaum, U3 Engineering, who claimed that military-funded research can be used for peaceful and even beneficial civilian purposes.

“Military research is done to better the people of Canada and the United States,” Cytrynbaum said. “Research is independent of what it is used for.”

After considerable debate, the motion on military research was divided into two questions: one asked SSMU to oppose McGill’s involvement in thermobaric weapons development, while the other called for implementation of transparency policies and ethical evaluations of research done in cooperation with the military.

Both motions passed, although the former received only a small margin of assenting votes.

Military recruitment was an equally contentious issue.

Michael Puempel, U1 Management, argued that since the government subsidizes certain costs at public universities, such as McGill, it has the right to place military recruiters on campuses.

“The government…offsets some of the tuition students have to pay,” Puempel said. He added that while most recruits did not serve in combative roles in the military, they are provided with legitimate careers.

Higgins, however, argued a precedent has been set by similar movements in dozens of university and CEGEP campuses across the province.

“We have seen a reduced military presence on campuses,” he said.

Even after an amendment cut down the motion to just opposing military presence in Shatner, it was passed with a slim margin. It was followed by a quick approval of a motion asking SSMU to petition the McGill administration for a catered open-bar party at Principal Heather Monroe-Blum’s home.

But quorum was lost in the midst of the fifth motion, despite SSMU executives’ efforts to persuade students to stay at Three Bares Park and call friends to the GA. Students were unable to complete a debate on whether SSMU councillors should refer to McGill administrators by Star Wars names.

Turner said any motions left unaddressed at this GA will be carried over and discussed at next semester’s GA.

To vote in the online referendum, go to ovs.ssmu.mcgill.ca.

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The group, Choose Life, hopes to educate students in the McGill community about the pro-life cause by promoting respect for human life from conception.

“There’s not too much encouragement in university and our community for women to choose life,” said Natalie Fohl, U2 Biology and Political Science, who founded the group.

Fohl acknowledged that the McGill community may oppose Choose Life in its efforts to gain club status. She pointed to the recent popular resistance to Parliament Bill C-484, which would make it a crime to cause death or injury to an unborn child while attempting to harm its mother.

Choose Life plans to provide information and resources on other pregnancy options to women who might see abortion as their only choice.

“It’s really concerning, because nearly 100,000 abortions happen in Canada every year – no one knows about it and no one cares, so it’s really intolerable.”

SSMU council will have the final say on Choose Life’s status, although it is still unknown when the vote will take place.

SSMU VP Clubs and Services Samantha Cook pointed out that Choose Life’s quest is highly controversial and acknowldged that SSMU may not want to be associated with a group perceived as discriminatory.

“I would imagine that there would be some sort of backlash if this does go through,” Cook said. “I think primarily you might see one from the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students (SACOMSS) and the Union for Gender Empowerment…[who] have a more vested interest in women’s rights and reproductive rights.”

Fohl stressed that the group’s goals do not include campaigning to change the legal status of abortion.

“We feel that changing hearts and minds needs to happen [before that] and is more important,” Fohl said.

But she also recognized that freedom of speech is an important factor to consider when debating the legitimacy of the group. Despite McGill’s predominantly liberal student body, especially among those involved with SSMU, Cook explained that the students’ society must represent opinions on campus. As a result, taking an ideological stance against the pro-life group could set a dangerous precedent.

“Just because it doesn’t have significant support from the majority of the population doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist to support the interest of a minority of students,” Cook said.

Two other pro-life student groups in Canada have had to fight for recognition as legitimate clubs on their campus, said Theresa Gilbert, Executive Director of the National Campus Life Network (NCLN).

“It’s an issue of freedom of speech,” Gilbert said. “Obviously we feel that the pro-life position is a legitimate view, based in science and based in reason.”

Gilbert explained that universites can make students with pro-life convictions reluctant to express them openly because students’ societies often side against them.

“We feel that students who express these views are not able to voice them in public,” she said.

Student associations at Carleton University and Capilano University in British Columbia have attempted to ban pro-life groups from becoming clubs in recent years. Both ultimately overturned their decisions, though the Capilano Students Union only did so only after the pro-life group complained to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal on the basis of religious discrimination.

This summer, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) – a nationwide association of student unions that SSMU was kicked out of last fall – passed a motion to support student associations that deny funding to pro-life groups and clubs.

VP External Gilary Massa of the York Federation of Students (YFS) – the student association that brought forward the CFS motion – said the motion was meant to support student unions that did not want to fund anti-choice groups.

“This is not a ban, just a decision as to how our funding would be allocated,” said Massa. “We have a stance against allocating resources to work that is homophobic, racist, sexist, or discriminatory in any nature,” which includes pro-life groups in the view of the YFS.

According to Cook, SSMU is under no longer obligation to honour the CFS motion since it is no longer a member.

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The protest attempted to increase awareness of federal law that fails to protect sex workers and forces them to the fringes of society, and was led by the Ottawa-based group Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work to Educate and Resist (POWER).

Chris Bruckert, University of Ottawa professor and member of POWER, explained that current solicitation laws, found in sections 210 to 213 of the Canadian Criminal Code, that criminalize soliciting or accepting money for sex, produce dangerous working conditions for sex workers.

“In the existing legal structure, sex workers who are victims of violence find it very hard to turn to the police…because they’re often criminalized,” she said.

Bruckert explained that existing legislation isolates sex workers, because anyone helping sex workers – by offering housing, recording clients’ license plate numbers for safety purposes, or sharing money with a partner – is assumed to be living parasitically off of sex work. As a result, friends, family members, and clients, can be charged as criminals.

Stella, Montreal’s support group for the city’s sex workers, protested at the POWER demonstration.

Emilie-Cloé Laliberté-Danel, a Stella outreach worker, explained in an email that current federal policies on sex work, crafted largely by the Conservative party, seek to reinforce repression against sex workers as a means of eradicating the profession.

“Criminalization…reinforces the stigma of the bad girl, sends the message to assaulters that it is okay to hurt [sex workers, that] they are criminals,” she wrote. “It also reinforces prejudices in the society and can’t allow mentalities to change.”

Members of Parliament are also criticizing the current state of solicitation laws. In 2003, in response to a string of prostitute killings and disappearances in Vancouver and Edmonton, the House of Commons decided to review existing solicitation laws through a Parliamentary committee.

Current legislation also increases the chance of HIV infection for sex workers, according to a 2005 report by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.

Richard Elliott, Executive Director at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, said that as the current law criminalizes solicitation in both public and private establishments, sex workers are forced to make swift decisions about accepting clients – leading to greater risk of violence and HIV contraction.

“If you’re running the risk for being arrested and charged because you’re having a conversation with a potential client on the street, then you don’t have as much time to assess that situation,” Elliott said. “You are probably then, and this is what we hear from sex workers, at greater risk to going with an unsafe client.”

Elliott, however, says that the chance of Parliament altering current laws is slim because even the Liberal, NDP, and Bloc parties – involved in crafting the House Committee report – have been reluctant to take a strong stance against the current Criminal Code.

He said there is greater hope in a favourable Supreme Court ruling.

“If the courts actually weigh in on this and declare unconstitutional some of the provisions of the existing law, that will put the issue back before Parliament,” Elliott said.

In the meantime, Bruckert, said the protests will continue.

“It continues to keep the pressure up,” she said. “Hopefully people are talking about it and it’s something people are thinking of.”

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A summer Bookstore employee, also a U2 student at McGill, developed a cough and sore throat when the Bookstore installed several dehumidifers. Because he and other employees at the Bookstore were uninformed about the dehumidifiers and unaware of the reason for them, he contacted the University’s office of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) – the office responsible for ensuring safety and resolving hazards on campus – to determine if the dehumidifiers were treating whatever was causing his respiratory condition.

The student said that he explained the situation to an EHS representative, who said that he should expect a phone call response to his inquiry later that day.

But the student never received a call. Instead, Bookstore manager, Barry Schmidt, confronted the student about his inquiry. Schmidt had been notified about the call by the EHS.

The student, who asked to remain anonymous, said that he was disrespected and resented that his case was not treated professionally.

“That’s the thing I found inappropriate. [I] called this office…asking what I thought to be a reasonable question, and instead of answering directly, [the EHS went] to my boss and had my boss essentially ask me not to call [them]…which I thought was completely rude and dishonest,” he said.

The Bookstore’s mediation of the student’s grievance, according to Schmidt, was not antagonistic, but meant to facilitate the employee’s access to information.

“I suggested to him in the nicest possible way that in the future should he have an issue about a matter in the store…if he spoke with us first, he might get the answer,” Schmidt said.

“If he wasn’t satisfied at that point, he’s more than free to talk to anyone he likes in the McGill organization,” Schmidt continued.

The Bookstore’s management had independently called the EHS to report the mould growth several weeks before the student made the inquiry to report the situation, but the management did not inform its employees about of the issue.

The student employee suspected a collusion existing between the Bookstore and the EHS that violated his rights as a worker.

“They had some vested interest for looking out for the management of the store,” the student said. “I’m not sure why they couldn’t answer my call personally. That’s the part about it that bothered me.”

Over the summer the Bookstore was cleaned and the Bronfman air conditioning system was repaired, resulting in a perpetually colder temperature in the store to eradicate the growth.

While the mould was ultimately decided not to be the cause of the student’s health condition, some are still convinced the situation is indicative of a larger problem for student workers employed by McGill and their rights to information.

Max Silverman, a former SSMU VP External who is organizing the creation of an undergraduate student labour union – the Association of McGill Undergraduate Student Employees (AMUSE) – said that the mould episode fits snugly into a general pattern of disrespectful treatment of on-campus student employees.

“There’s no grievance structure in place [for student employees]. When they try to get answers they end up being reprimanded,” Silverman said.

Although AMUSE does not currently have official demands, Silverman said that if the group is successfully unionized, there will likely be an effort to improve employee complaint structures and to ensure that workers are not forced to go through their direct employers when problems arise.

At press time, the McGill Office of Environmental Health and Safety did not respond.

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The campaign launch, orchestrated by SSMU in coordination with several other student groups, was intended to highlight what SSMU hopes will be a year-long campaign to reverse students’ continual loss of rights.

According to SSMU VP External Devin Alfaro, there are numerous groups on campus that are concerned about the administration’s stance on reducing student space and independence.

“It’s time to unite as many people as possible in a unified voice,” Alfaro said. “This event aims to speak for lots of people.”

Other issues raised included the need for a democratically elected Board of Governors, compensation for the Teaching Assistants (TA), a contract for MUNACA – the union representing non-academic workers at McGill – and a prioritization of student needs in general.

In reference to the TA strike last semester, Richard Hink, president of the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM), noted that while the union is currently fighting to receive withheld wages from the spring, it also wished to address the broader problem of student marginalization at McGill.

“We are…fighting alongside other campus groups to reaffirm McGill as a community instead of the corporation it is becoming,” Hink said in a press release.

Disgruntled students set out on foot from Roddick Gates toward the James Administration building as Critical Mass, a Montreal bike organization, which pushes for bikers’ rights in the city, gathered about 15 cyclists at the Milton Gates to join the main protestors.

The bike protest was supported by McGill’s Quebec Public Interest Research Group whose external coordinator, Indu Vashist, said that the demonstration was meant to draw attention to a recent undervaluing of bike culture at the University.

“[The administration’s] line was that they are interested in student safety, and while I completely agree that students should be safe on campus…cars have been given priority on the road rather than students,” Vashist said.

Critical Mass deliberately chose to ride past the security guards against the McGill-approved one-way flow of traffic by the Macdonald Engineering building. Students involved pointed to the administration’s misplaced importance to cars, the lack of a bike lane through campus, and an inadequate amount of bike parking available to students.

There has been concern expressed that permitting bikers to move against the traffic pattern particularly during campus construction is dangerous to students and cyclists alike.

Nadya Wilkinson, SSMU VP University Affairs, noted that several people have been seriously injured by bike riders on campus, and added that it is incredibly dangerous for cyclists coming from Montreal’s Milton bike path to speed through campus.

Wilkinson acknowledged that although there has been talk of putting a bike lane through campus, such a scenario is unlikely because it would require the removal of parking spaces. Parking fees were recently increased by 30 per cent in order to provide more funding for McGill’s Office of Sustainability, which would lose funding if spaces were removed.

“It would just be safest to separate cars, bikes, and people,” Wilkinson said.

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McGill University’s Department of Architecture has been at the forefront of the movement to increase green space through the efforts of its Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG), which focuses attention on improving housing in poor nations. Part of this process involves creating urban spaces where food can be grown in portable containers.

According to Vikram Bhatt, director of the MCHG, the group’s “Making the Edible Campus” project, which began last year, is part of an effort to look at issues such as producing food in urban areas from a different point of view.

“We are looking at…growing food on rooftops, looking at a city which has a lot of land wasted,” Bhatt said.

He explained that the MCHG has focused on the concrete Burnside plaza near the northern “stairs to nowhere.” Now, with the work of the MCHG and its volunteers – including McGill students and members of the Montreal community – the area has been filled with containers in which vegetables are grown, thus providing a green space for McGill students to enjoy. All the food that is produced in the garden is in turn donated to Santropol Roulant, a community organization run by young people who deliver meals to those who are elderly or lack autonomy.

Both Bhatt and Santropol Roulant’s Green Project Coordinator, Tim Murphy, noted that the Edible Campus program was part of an effort to close the food loop.

“The garden [at McGill] is part of our work toward a complete food cycle,” Murphy said. “We compost most of our kitchen waste, so we can grow vegetables, and the vegetables come back to the kitchen.”

Part of Santropol’s goal, he added, is to make its organization sustainable: trying to ensure that its food is grown locally, without pesticides, and with healthy varieties of seeds – all ideals the McGill project is able to achieve. As a measure of its success, Edible Campus was awarded a 2008 National Urban Design Award by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Edible Campus is not the only program of its kind, however. The Edible Campus project is only one of several “rooftop gardens” initiatives supported by Santropol Roulant and its partner, the international solidarity organization Alternatives, which works toward the development of sustainable societies. In August, students in the Environmental Science program at Université de Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) created a new self-managed garden on the roof of UQAM’s Design building, and produce grown there will goes towards feeding those without any food or shelter.

Ismael Hautecoeur, the head of Alternatives’s rooftop gardens project and a founder of the regroupement des jardins collectifs du Québec, stated that McGill’s Edible Campus garden is the main demonstration site for introducing rooftop gardening techniques to the public, allowing volunteers from the city to maintain the garden regardless of whether they are students or not.

“The idea is that it’s open and accessible to anybody who is interested in jumping into urban agriculture,” Hautecoeur said. “Universities are the most accessible sites we could think of.”

He added that other gardening projects have been created across Montreal, and have even been started internationally in Mexico, Cuba, and Senegal. Furthermore, the Université de Montréal (UdeM) has expressed interest in an urban agriculture project of its own. Ultimately, Hautecoeur explained, the goal is to promote the different models of urban gardening used in Montreal throughout the rest of Canada and its other universities.

The common vision of Santropol Roulant, Alternatives, and the MCHG is to take an environmental approach to their work of creating sustainable gardening in urban areas. They are intent on providing an educational experience to the volunteers participating in urban agricultural projects, said Hautechoeur.

“If generation after generation of students learn and enjoy discovering the garden, we will have done our job.”

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Bedbugs, the pesty blood-suckers discovered in the New Residence Hall and the MORE house at 522 Pins last year, surfaced in Solin last semester.

While representatives from McGill’s Residence Services insisted the hall is now bedbug-free, U0 Education student Aaryn Secker is still living in her boyfriend’s single Solin apartment. Worried that even a few tenacious bedbugs hanging onto Stecker’s clothes could spread the infestation, McGill refused to give her a new room in Solin.

“I could stay in my infested room, live with my boyfriend, or live on the street and have no other options,” Secker said.

Secker notified Howard Zinman, Services Coordinator for Solin Hall, after discovering tiny red bites all over her body in September. Residence Services was initially responsive to her concerns, replacing her mattress and couch, paying for dry cleaning, and spraying her room with chemicals to kill the bugs.

But despite the intensive cleaning, Secker said that the bedbugs returned.

“They kept coming back. McGill [Residence Services] replaced my bed about twice. By the end of it they ended up taking out my bed and my fridge,” she said.

When the problem persisted, Secker moved out for good and sought rent compensation from the Student Housing Office for the entire academic year.

McGill’s refusal to reimburse Secker for rent or to terminate her lease has caused Secker to threaten bringing her case to the Régie du Logement, Quebec’s housing office.

Zinman refused to comment on Secker’s case, citing confidentiality reasons. He said the process of treating bedbug infestations has not changed since last year’s incidents in MORE Houses and New Residence, where bedbugs were found in several rooms.

Rooms go through an extensive cleaning process before each academic year, including a final survey by a professional cleaning company to ensure that they are bug-free, Zinman said.

But Myrna Wyatt Selkirk, Director of Solin Hall, said that even with cleaning, it’s often difficult to know when rooms are bedbug-free.

“Even when we closed down [the MORE house] we still had a fear of what would happen when we opened it back up…because you can’t actually tell there are bedbugs until there are people. They need warm beings to come out. You can’t tell they’re there until they bite somebody,” Selkirk said.

The three rooms infested in New Residence last year are still under quarantine, according to James Guthrie, Services Coordinator for New Residence.

He said that the rooms were closed according to exterminators’ recommendations, and New Residence has been free of infestation ever since.

“I don’t want to jinx anything, but we’re hoping [that they’re gone],” Guthrie said.

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According to U3 Geography student and Planning Office employee Asa Bergman, McGill plans to study what bicycle security measures other universities have implemented, as well as conduct a survey to learn whether students would be interested in a more secure form of bike parking on campus.

“The goal of this is to present a few alternatives to the Planning Office and then they can decide what to implement,” Bergman said.

She explained that, according to some early feedback from students and some statistics, bicycle theft remains a problem on campus. Although it is hard to determine exactly how widespread theft is, Bergman said that security concerns were definitely one of the biggest deterrents to student cycling.

Radu Juster of the Office of Planning & Institutional Analysis explained that this project is part of McGill’s agreement with the City of Montreal to pursue sustainable development.

McGill’s commitments included installing additional bike racks through the end of 2009 and improving infrastructure to encourage the use of bicycles by students, as well as the introduction of secure bike lockers and bike shelters.

“We want to be able to accommodate the majority of bikers,” Juster said.

He added that there would be some costs involved with using a higher security bicycle parking facility, whether on a monthly or on a semester basis. Renting a bike locker or part of an indoor enclosure would be similar to buying a parking permit, and the McGill Parking Office would likely manage the operation.

The SSMU Bike Collective mechanic, Erica Lamb, acknowledged that security is indeed a huge concern for student cyclists. However, she said that a fee on lockers would not make better storage facilities accessible to all students.

“Personally, I bike to school every single day of the year, but I don’t have the cash [for a locker],” Lamb said. “I’d much rather put that money towards a high-security lock.”

Lamb maintained that bike lockers were not necessarily the most practical option in terms of better security since there isn’t enough space on campus to house them.

“I think that adequate bike parking is a bigger issue than security,” she added.

According to Bergman, however, McGill has acknowledged that there is not enough space to install a great number of high-security spots, so any lockers would merely be an addition for students interested in more secure bike parking.

The number of lockers installed would reflect student demand, as reflected in the survey Bergman plans to release this week through various student association listservs.

“This would be to show that McGill is encouraging biking by providing alternatives,” Bergman said. “Hopefully we’d be able to expand that program if it’s successful.”

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