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The Reprehensible Laurel Broten has been moved to the back benches as you’ll see from the attached editorial from the October 2011 edition of The Bulletin
By Frank Touby –
The Reprehensible Laurel Broten
The Reprehensible Laurel Broten has been moved to the back benches as you’ll see from the attached editorial from the October 2011 edition of The Bulletin reproduced below this Press Release from OSSTF:
“The appointment of a new Minister of Education is a move in the right direction,” said Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF/FEESO) President Ken Coran.
Coran’s comments came after Premier Kathleen Wynne and her cabinet were sworn in at a ceremony earlier today. Wynne named Guelph MPP Liz Sandals as the new Minister of Education. Sandals is a former school board trustee, and was elected as president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA) from 1998-2002. Having been elected four times as a school board trustee ensures that Minister Sandals is knowledgeable about the inner workings of a school system.
“Our hope is that Liz’s experience in public education and her understanding of the importance of the people who work within it will contribute to a process of rebuilding the trust and respect that has been lost because of the actions of her predecessor,” continued Coran. “In the past, OSSTF/FEESO has worked hard to create a collaborative environment with the Minister of Education and it is our hope that Liz Sandals will work with us to find solutions to the current political impasse. We want solutions that work for all sides so that we may move forward together.”
From The Bulletin editorial October 2011
It’s outrageous how the Province of Ontario is abusing young people. Laurel Broten should be fired as Ontario’s minister of children and youth services for sitting on her thumbs. Premier Dalton McGuinty should resign in shame.
If he has any reverence for the Liberal brand, he’d boot Broten from caucus for her nonfeasance.
In November 2009 Broten said her ministry was looking into the scandal made public by Toronto Star writer Diana Zlomislic about abuse of young people in the facility by Ontario staff and other inmates.
In December, the Star reported that a teenage Crown witness was put in the same quarters as the group of young men he was to testify against.
Youths reported being punched and kicked by guards, locked in their rooms for days and generally held under unsafe conditions.
Yet as of April, Broten said her staff were drafting plans to address the problems, most of which actually are crimes.
Rather than immediately move a platoon of police officers in to ensure the safety of young people forthwith, Broten dawdles about with bureaucrats.
That’s heartless incompetence. When young people, are being abused by public employees, it’s downright evil for a minister to fail to act immediately. Further, 90% of those young inmates haven’t been convicted of any offences.
After Broten is booted from caucus, McGuinty should follow her through the door with his own resignation. Her disgrace is his as well.
Turns out McGuinty has resigned in disgrace. Just a couple of years overdue.
