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Potential SSMU Executives Dropped Out Due to Concerns Over Immigration Status SSMU election reveals legal issue for international student candidates Pallavi Kamalsurya NEWS WRITER
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However, during this SSMU electoral period, two international students discovered that despite being a part of this international student population that they could not run for office and represent the student body at
large - at least not legally. Saad Qazi, current Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) VP Finance, and Sam Baker, current President of the Economics Students Association, decided not to run for positions
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cGill University is an institution that prides itself on 20 percent of its students coming from more than 150 countries and being renowned as “Canada’s most international university.”
Saad Qazi, current Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) VP Finance, decided to drop out of the running for a SSMU Executive position.
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