Paul Coffey, a trustee with the Dauphin-based Mountain View School Division, gave a presentation during a board meeting on Monday in which he questioned the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.
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.
"You have to start to wonder how authentic it is when there's absolutely no good stories in Canada about the residential schools?" Coffey said at Monday's meeting. "How is that possible? There's got to be one good story.""dropped out" and that it wasn't a "a high priority to send kids to school." "I am very active in my daughter's school right now and I see the progress that's being made," said Thompson.
"My initial reaction was just of shock and confusion," said Cam Bennet, a retired teacher who used to work at the division. "It seemed like more like Festivus, the airing of the grievances type of thing," he said, in reference to the fictitious holiday from the TV show"There didn't really seem to be a point to it. … Not really behaviour that I would expect from a school board trustee.
"We will continue to ensure that our students and staff are working in an environment where every student is valued, nurtured and enabled to realize their full potential," the statement said.
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