An anti-LGBTQ group will no longer be able to present at Mission Public Schools meetings after receiving a ban from the board.
At a school board meeting on Tuesday (Feb. 21), Mission Public Schools banned Action4Canada from presenting misinformation at meetings intended to target, discriminate, or trigger trauma in the school district.
Board trustee Randy Cairns brought the motion forward to ban Action4Canada and it carried unanimously. The ban will be reconsidered in one year.
Mission Public Schools board chair Shelley Carter says the district is inclusive, diverse, and accepting and does not condone misleading and hateful propaganda.
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Mission Public Schools superintendent Angus Wilson says he met with the group in his office and it was an interesting hour and half.
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Action4Canada presented to the Board as a delegation on Jan. 10. According to the agenda for that session, the group presented concerns about Mission Public Schools香蕉视频直播� support for 2SLGBTQ+ youth and requested the removal of SOGI (sexual orientations and gender identities) educational resources, and pornographic/sexually explicit books from Mission Public Schools.
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According to Mission Public Schools, the group did not follow the presentation procedure that they were informed of by staff. Wilson said they subsequently tried to connect conspiracy theories about the United Nations to Indigenous people.
Augusta Gladstone is a Mission parent that encountered Action4Canada at the Jan. 10 school board meeting and the Mission RCMP Policing Forum on Feb.8.
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Mission Mayor Paul Horn, who attended the policing forum, says the city has no plans to ban Action4Canada from public meetings.
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dillon.white@missioncityrecord.com
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