Top court won't review school board's sanctioning of trustee for likening LGBTQ issues to bestiality

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 15, 2025 1:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 14 minutes ago

The Supreme Court of Canada volition not reappraisal the Toronto Catholic District School Board's determination to authorisation a trustee implicit comments helium made during a debate.

At a November 2019 nationalist gathering of trustees, the committee considered a question to adhd 4 caller grounds for barring
discriminatory practices: sex identity, sex expression, household presumption and marital status.

Trustee Michael Del Grande projected an amendment to the motion, contending that if the 4 caller projected grounds were added, truthful excessively should others specified arsenic pedophilia, cannibalism, bestiality and vampirism.

An archetypal ballot connected whether Del Grande's remarks breached the board's codification of behaviour did not pass, but pursuing a nationalist outcry the committee reconsidered and voted to authorisation him.

An Ontario tribunal recovered the committee acted wrong the scope of its authorization successful reconsidering its archetypal determination and ruled that its actions were reasonable.

The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the ruling, prompting Del Grande to instrumentality his lawsuit to the Supreme Court.