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Ottawa, Ontario -- The Cana- dian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) today announced that it was appealing to the International Stu- dent Travel Confederatetion (ISTC)

Travel Cuts

CASA fights Price Descrimination

cal organization [CFS]," said CASA

National Director Alex Usher in a letter to the ISTC's Director Gen- eral. "ISTC is a non-partisan agency whose brief is to be of assistance to all students, regardless of the parti-

asked ISTC to revoke either the price regime or the exclusivity arangement. It doesn't matter much which one we get -- either way, students who don't want to be part of CFS will pay less for their ISIC

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cards."

"The ISTC is a wonderful organization which exists to help all students, regardless of the partisan

- affiliation of the student association to which they belong. It is simply reprehensible that CFS has perverted

san affiliation of the student associa- tion of which they happen to be members."

There are two problematic aspects with the current set-up;, firstly that Travel CUTS has exclusivivity over distribution in

in Copenhagen, Denmark, regarding Travel CUTS' discriminatory pricing regime for the International Student ID Card (ISIC).

Currently, Travel CUTS -- which is wholly owned by the the

Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) -- is the exclusive Canadian distributor of the ISIC card, which is issued by the ISTC. Most student travel fares require the presentation of the card in order to obtain the discount. Travel CUTS charges students $15 for the card if their student associations are not members of CFS, while allowing students at member associations to receive the card free of charge. The nonmember price is deliberately set higher than the CFS membership fee in order to entice schools to join their political lobby organizaiton.

"The ISIC card is being used in Canada as a political tool by a politi-

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