"Education Minister Paul Calandra tabled a bill Monday with the sole purpose of firing one school board trustee. It is related to a $45,000 trip that four trustees from the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board took last year to Italy, where they bought $100,000 worth of art for the board. Calandra has said for months that three of the four trustees paid back their expenses, but the fourth was refusing and if he continued to do so, he would be fired."
""We said, 'pay it back or we fire you' and today is the culmination of that promise," Calandra said after introducing the legislation. "We're going to fire him and make an example out of him." Calandra said that trustees' Italy expenses amounted to about $50,000 in travel costs, which he called "both excessive and unjustifiable," and the preamble of the bill indicates the trustee in question has not paid his share of $12,370."
A bill was tabled to remove one trustee over unpaid expenses tied to a $45,000 trip to Italy where four trustees purchased $100,000 of art for the board. Three trustees repaid their expenses while one refused, leaving an unpaid share of $12,370. The legislation would remove Mark Watson from office, bar him from running in the 2026 municipal elections, and make him ineligible to serve on Ontario school boards until 2030. Five school boards have been placed under provincial supervision for alleged mismanagement, and broader governance changes including eliminating trustee positions are under consideration.
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