An Alberta judge has ruled that a school board’s decision to disqualify a trustee over comments he made toward two school division employees was “disproportionate,” and that the board erred in law by requiring him to issue an apology of a specific nature.
Justice Eleanor J. Funk of the Court of King’s Bench issued a ruling on June 11, saying that the Peace River School Division in northwest Alberta did not have a factual basis to justify its decision to disqualify former trustee Moise Dion.
Dion was disqualified in September 2024 after the board determined he had engaged in “discreditable conduct.” He had faced two separate code of conduct complaints for comments directed at two employees, which the board described as “inappropriate.”…