Ever sent an email to the wrong person? What about a few hundred wrong people? Imagine that the email lays out your plans for a major referendum campaign with tens of thousands of students’ dollars at stake, and that the unintended recipients were hundreds of student politicians throughout your province, and you might understand the predicament of the Canadian Federation of Students-BC.

The leaked document contains a spreadsheet outlining CFS-BC’s plans to defeat the Simon Fraser Student Society’s attempt to leave the federation. SFSS, based in Vaninside couver’s Simon Fraser University, will hold a referendum on March 18 to 20, asking students if they wish to leave CFS-BC. Two other unions are considering leaving CFS-BC as well: The Kwantlen Student Association and the University of Victoria Graduate Students’ union.

The KSA released a statement calling the leaked document “war plans.”

“In my three years on the CFS-BC Executive Committee, I never saw a campaign strategy document this methodical,” said KSA’s chair and director of external affairs Laura Anderson.

The leak reveals the names of hundreds of potential volunteers at student unions nationwide, along with timelines and detailed lists of resources CFS-BC could marshal in their referendum campaign.

According to the University of Alberta’s newspaper the Gateway, the document was intended for Lucy Watson, CFS national director of organizing. It was mistakenly sent to a large mailing list including every CFS member union in the province.

The CFS-BC is now maintaining that the document was the work of a single staffer, Summer McFadyen. At press time, McFadyen was not speaking to reporters.

CFS-BC chairperson Shamus Reid said that McFadyen had “brainstormed” the document independently, without consulting any of the politicians detailed in the file or coordinating with CFS’s national branch.

“Summer was preparing with her own personal notes. My understanding was her notes were around people’s perceived availability and what she expected people’s availability was for the campaign,” Reid said. The list contained the full names of more than two hundred CFS staffers across the country, with an accompanying letter grade. The meaning of that grade is not clear. Reid said he was unfamiliar with the document and believed the grade represented each person’s availability. While a calendar grid for the dates March 3 to March 21 accompanies each name on the list, their highlighted availability does not seem to correlate with the letter grades.

Gilary Massa and Loveleen Khan, for example, both of the York Federation of Students, are shaded in for the week of March 17 to 21. However, Gilary got an A grade and Loveleen a C.

U of T’s CFS workers received a range of mystery grades. For example, Dave Scrivener, VP External, received an A. Alice Wu, UTSU board member, was assigned a C.

“It’s news to me that I got a C or that my name showed up at all,” she said. With files from Allison Martell