Local Committee National Training

The travel subsidy is intended to help Local Committees partially fund their travel to the Ottawa-Gatineau region for the 2025 WUSC Local Committee National Training. Only participants who live outside the Ottawa-Gatineau region are eligible to apply for the subsidy.

In addition to the travel subsidy, each participant from outside the Ottawa-Gatineau region will also receive a dinner allowance of $28.85 for Saturday, August 16th (Thursday and Friday dinners will be provided).

Participants must register for the National Training and apply for a subsidy by filling out section 4 of the registration form by July 9, 2025. Each Local Committee can appoint one member to attend the 2025 WUSC Local Committee National Training. Only ONE member per Local Committee is eligible to receive the travel subsidy.

IMPORTANT: The appointed member is responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from the Local Committee National Training. WUSC will not be arranging transportation on behalf of participants.

To receive the travel subsidy, please follow these steps:

1. Email campus@wusc.ca with a copy of your Local Committee meeting minutes or an email (with all LC members in copy) confirming your appointment as the member to attend National Training. 

2. A member of the WUSC team will send you a link to the registration form. 

3. Once you submit the registration form, the WUSC team member will confirm your eligibility to receive the travel subsidy. 

4. Once your eligibility is confirmed, WUSC will send you the Travel Subsidy & Per Diem Agreement. The member must submit (1) a signed copy of the Agreement and (2) Banking details (i.e void cheque or direct deposit form) of the Local Committee to campus@wusc.ca. 

5. The Local Committee will receive the travel subsidy and per diem prior to travel.

Travel subsidies will be allocated according to the below departure city as follows:

• Abbotsford: $525

• Alma: $600

• Antigonish: $450

• Barrie: $300

• Brandon: $325

• Brantford: $300

• Burnaby: $500

• Calgary: $450

• Charlottetown: $725

• Dawson Creek: $650

• Edmonton: $550

• Fort McMurray: $650

• Guelph: $300

• Halifax: $425

• Hamilton: $300

• Hearst: 700

• Kingston: $150

• Kitchener: $300

• Laval: $150

• Lethbridge: $500

• Levis: $300

• London: $300

• Matane: $600

• Mississauga: $200

• Montreal: $150

• Nanaimo: $500

• North Bay: $200

• Oakville: $200

• Olds: $500

• Oshawa: $175

• Peterborough: $150

• Prince George: $500

• Quebec: $300

• Regina: $650

• Repentigny: $175

• Sackville: $425

• Saguenay: $600

• Sainte Anne de Bellevue: $150

• Saskatoon: $675

• Sault Ste. Marie: $650

• Scarborough: $200

• Sherbrooke: $200

• St. Catherines: $200

• St. John's: $600

• Sudbury: $300

• Terrebonne: $175

• Thunder Bay: $575

• Toronto: $200

• Trois-Rivières: $200

• Truro: $450

• Vancouver: $500

• Victoria: $625

• Waterloo: $300

• Whitehorse: $900

• Windsor: $400

• Winnipeg: $275

• Wolfville: $450

You can expect to receive the funds within two weeks of the confirmation of eligibility. 

Please email campus@wusc.ca with a copy of the banking details (i.e void cheque or direct deposit form) of your Local Committee

By accepting the travel subsidy, you acknowledge and accept that:

• You will attend the 2025 WUSC Local Committee National Training.

• If you are unable to attend, you will notify WUSC as soon as possible and arrange for another Local Committee member to attend. If someone else cannot attend, then the WUSC travel subsidy must be refunded to WUSC.

• You are responsible for organizing your own travel arrangements to and from the Ottawa airport, bus or train station and to Algonquin College where the training will occur. WUSC will not provide any support.

• You will report to WUSC the arrival and departure information of the travel arrangements you make.

• No other funds will be provided by WUSC to participants of the  2024 WUSC Local Committee National Training. 

Most universities and colleges provide funding for students to attend conferences and training. You can top up the travel subsidy by applying for these funding opportunities through your institution.