Toronto Catholic trustees plot meeting, consider taking Ford government to court
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Trustees at Toronto's Catholic school board are attempting to schedule a rogue meeting to get a legal opinion on their constitutional privileges as they face an overhaul.
Trustees at Toronto’s Catholic school board are attempting to schedule a rogue meeting to get a legal opinion on their constitutional privileges amid an ongoing tug-of-war with the Ford government.
As the province looks at overhauling Ontario’s 72 school boards, Education Minister Paul Calandra said the government could eliminate or severely curtail the elected trustee position and refocus those expenditures into classrooms.
While a final decision has yet to be made, Calandra told Global News that trustees at the province’s 31 English-language public school boards could be eliminated entirely by the end of the year.
The trustee role in French-language school boards, however, would remain untouched, he said, while the position in the Catholic school system would be diminished as a result of constitutional guarantees.
“The Catholic system has a constitutional guarantee with respect to denominational issues within their board,” Calandra told Global News in a sit-down interview.
Calandra added that while Catholic school board trustees would still deal with denominational issues “no matter what we do,” their overall scope could be narrowed to only deal with constitutionally-protected matters.
“There will still always be some form of a Catholic trustee,” Calandra said.
Markus de Domenico, the Chair of Toronto’s Catholic School Board, suggested the minister’s position is unrealistic.
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