A prominent disability advocate says the Ford government’s decision to stop livestreaming meetings at the school boards it has taken over is “exceedingly troubling and undemocratic.”

Recently, the Ministry of Education instructed supervisors at major school boards like Toronto public, Ottawa-Carleton and Dufferin-Peel Catholic to stop broadcasting their meetings online.

At Toronto District School Board , one of the meetings impacted was the Special Education Advisory Committee, chaired by disability advocate David Lepofsky.

He said livestreaming the meetings was a vital service that particularly benefitted the parents of children with disabilities or special educational needs.

Lepofsky said parents have, for years, tuned into the online broadcasts of the meetings to understand what

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