People's Party of Canada candidate shouldn't have been included: NDP MLA
“A Department of Education policy should have prevented a People's Party of Canada candidate from participating in a recent Dartmouth high school election debate, instead of requiring she be invited, says NDP education critic Claudia Chender.
Chender is urging Education Minister Zach Churchill to change the policy that requires all candidates to be invited to public school election debates. Instead, the policy should give principals and teachers the authority to decide who participates.
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‘I myself have a hard time of leaving the burden of the enforcement of those policies on individual teachers and administrators once people are in schools or on a podium,’ said Chender.”