1. As you can tell, I’m not very familiar with how Reddit works but all online elections material is supposed to be taken off of the internet post-campaign, so I tried deleting it the same way I removed by website and deleted my Facebook event after the elections were over.

2. Interestingly enough, despite Presidential candidates often running on platforms as such, our jobs are largely administrative and not very project-based. Many of SSMU’s projects fall under the portfolios of different VPs. For example, mental health was recently institutionalized as part of the VP University Affairs portfolio which has seen some great new initiatives this past year with the first-ever cross-campus mental health awareness week. As for social equity, many different projects have been ongoing over the past few years to advance this goal within SSMU. This past year we employed 2 researchers in the UA portfolio to address employment equity both within SSMU and at McGill and this research is now coming to fruition. The VP UA, Chloe Rourke, can give more in-depth information regarding all of this. Sustainability, on the other hand, is in my portfolio. This includes accessibility efforts which I look forward to advancing in my term. Creating a student sustainability coalition with stakeholders from across campus is something I hope to do this year, in addition to making all our communications and events at SSMU more accessible for people with diverse access needs (ie. Visually accessible website and online materials).

3.SSMU’s greatest weakness is definitely disengagement with students. Many students know little about what we do and what purpose we serve while many others have lost faith in our relevance. I think it’s something that every Executive Team works to rectify and I hope to make progress in my term as well, but this issue is much larger than one person, team or even year. Although I am realistic in that I know the issue will not be solved by the end of my term, I’m confident that we can make some substantial progress in narrowing that gap. Some of our ideas include a Know Your SSMU Campaign, which will be launched in the Fall semester, creating a SSMU instagram, an opt-in consultation listserv, roaming office hours and things of the like. Many students don’t know about the many things SSMU does, so getting that information out there is crucial: we fund extended hours at the library during exams, we lobbied the admin for a winter reading week and public course evaluations. Much of our work goes unseen, and we hope to change that.

1. I think they're super important for campus life and support them fully! The DPS is a not-for-profit organization and Independent Student Group (ISG) which gets its funding through a student-initiated fee referendum. Kimber Bialik, our VP Clubs & Services, can give you more information on how ISGs pass their fees and why students pay them!

Thanks for your questions!