Education Minister Paul Calandra will tighten control over Ontario’s school boards, have the power to rein in locally elected trustees and return community police officers to classrooms in sweeping new legislation critics dub a massive “power grab.”
Triggered in part by an outcry over a $45,000 art-shopping trip to Italy by Brantford-area Catholic trustees, Calandra said the proposed bill allows him to more quickly investigate or take over supervision of school boards that have “gone off the rails, either financially or on other matters that are important to students, parents and teachers.”
This may prove one of the few “Conservative” things Ford has done and of course the left is up in arms as this legislation threatens their access to the public teat. That automatically qualifies it as “Trumpian”.
