CUSID was proud to crown new National Champions at Queen’s University this past week. Congratulations to Adrienne Lipsey and Richard Lizius of the University of Toronto’s Hart House, for defeating the joint National Top Speakers, Mike Jancik and Jason Rogers from McGill University. The Grand Final was held in Canada’s first Parliament, and was presided over by the Honourable Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons.
Congratulations also go to the new Novice Champions, McGill’s Riva Gold and Sophie MacIntyre, defeating Hart House’s Ben Schachter and Josh Xiong on a 4-3 decision after a 75 minute deliberation. Canada’s Top Public Speaker is McGill’s Leon Grek, who defeated McGill’s Padraic Scanlan, also on a 4-3 vote. The Top Novice Speaker was Hart House’s John Ashbourne.
The new CUSID Executive includes the University of Toronto’s Nick Shkordoff as President, the University of Ottawa’s Alex Amar as Executive Director, and the University of Toronto’s Paul-Erik Dash Veel as Treasurer.
Other business from the Annual General Meeting included the allocation of the 2007-2008 British Parliamentary Championships to Edmonton’s University of Alberta, the 2007-2008 North American Debating Championships to Carleton University in Ottawa, the 2007-2008 National Championships to Dalhousie University of Halifax, and the adoption of criteria to clarify CUSID recognition of multiple clubs at a single institution.
The Central Region General Meeting granted the 2007-2008 Central Canadian Novice Championships to York University’s Osgoode Hall, and the L?ger Cup to Kingston’s Royal Military College.
Many thanks and congratulations to Queen’s University for an impeccable tournament.