Education Minister Paul Calandra is defending his decision to keep elected school trustees in Ontario’s education system, saying that the government took significant steps to strip back their powers.
In a brief interview with QP Briefing, Calandra pointed to constitutional constraints and concerns about consistency across the province’s four school systems as key reasons for abandoning earlier considerations of eliminating trustees altogether.
“No,” he said when asked if scrapping trustees remained on the table. “And the reason is… some of the constitutional issues that were raised.”