An Ontario school board trustee who regularly warns against the proliferation of identity politics in education has been barred from attending a number of future meetings with his school board for reasons not disclosed to the public.
Mike Ramsay, a six-term trustee from the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB), was banned from participating in several meetings and sittings until this fall after fellow trustees voted 6-3 in favour of a motion that he had breached the trustee code of conduct.
The alleged breach stems from a complaint filed in late February.
A statement issued by WRDSB on June 7 said trustees met in a closed session the previous evening to discuss a confidential report from its integrity commissioner with respect to the complaint, prior to conducting the vote in a public session that same evening….