Manitoba school trustee faces calls to resign after comments on residential schools, reconciliation – CBC

Apr 25, 2024

Province will launch review of board after incident, education minister says

A school trustee in western Manitoba is facing calls to resign, and the province says it’s launching a review, after a presentation in which he made comments decried as hateful, including questioning the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.

Paul Coffey, a trustee with the Dauphin-based Mountain View School Division, gave a roughly half-hour-long presentation during a board meeting on Monday, ahead of an anti-racism training session Wednesday.

During the presentation, the trustee — who said he went to day school and has European and Indigenous ancestry, including Assiniboine and Chippewa roots — said the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was “causing division amongst people,” and questioned the funding reconciliation and inclusion initiatives get from government.

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