Governance Documents

This is the official Letters Patent.

The Constitution of the Students’ Society of McGill University

The SSMU Constitution is a document that deals with all of the most fundamental elements of the Society. It also serves as SSMU’s legal “By-law” for the Quebec government in relation to SSMU’s status as a non-profit corporation (it is for this reason that we recently changed our By-laws to be known as Internal Regulations, per our legal counsel, as our Constitution is essentially our ‘By-law’ in the eyes of the Quebec government).

The Constitution outlines the SSMU’s role in providing service, leadership, and representation to McGill’s downtown undergraduates, the basic outline of the seven Executive positions, basic electoral processes, and various disciplinary processes. The Constitution can only be altered by Referendum.

After the Constitution, the Internal Regulations of SSMU are the highest level of regulation that exists within SSMU. The Constitution sets out broad principles through which the Society functions, and creates and defines the main organs of SSMU governance. Whereas general principles are included in the Constitution, the Internal Regulations create frameworks for their application.Internal Regulations can be changed by Council or General Assembly.

Internal Regulations	Date Amended
Governance	April 8, 2021
Student Groups	April 14, 2022
Representation and Advocacy	March 28, 2019
Finances	April 14, 2022
Internal Regulations of Elections and Referenda	February 25, 2021

This is the book containing all Policies of the SSMU Board of Directors.

This is the book containing all Policies of the SSMU Legislative Council.

This is the book containing the outline of all ongoing SSMU Plans.

This is the book containing the outline of all official positions taken by the SSMU.

• Accessibility
• Affordable Student Housing
• Education
• Environment and Environmental Sustainability
• Ethics
• Equity and Social Sustainability
• Implementation of a Fall Reading Week
• Family Care
• Research
• Gender Equality
• Indigenous Equity
• Sexual Violence
• Student Life
• Wellness

The SSMU and the Student Associations want to adopt a uniform policy to provide the Persons with an environment where everyone is treated with respect, dignity and fairness and where all forms of discrimination, violence (including sexual violence), psychological, sexual or other forms of harassment, disrespect, dignity violation and lack of fairness is prohibited.
All-Faculty Involvement Restriction Policy (IRP) 2021