Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called a Toronto field trip that saw students involved with a downtown protest “disgraceful” and called for an urgent investigation, claiming his government will be “all over it.”
The Toronto District School Board has been under growing pressure after a field trip that saw students head to a day of action for the Grassy Narrows First Nation, whose community was impacted by mercury poisoning.
The board confirmed that a trip to the event was organized but said it had been planned as an “education experience” for students to listen to the experiences of Indigenous people.
The TDSB said the plan was not for students to take part in the protest itself.
At an unrelated event in Cobourg, Ont., on Monday, Ford blasted the board for the way the trip played out — and accused some educators of planning to “indoctrinate” students.
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