Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra is looking more and more like a man who has gone out on a long limb and can’t find his way back. For months, the minister has been threatening to eliminate elected school trustee positions, complaining long and loud about the trustees’ infighting, expenses and budget failures.

Last month, Calandra said trustees, “neither have the ability or the tools that they need to actually manage the system,” and argued that the province should step up and assume responsibility. While he ruled out eliminating school boards, the minister said, “but the trustees’ position is what I’m 100 per cent looking at — the elimination of the trustee position.”

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