Doug Ford calls for investigation into TDSB field trip that ended at ‘Palestinian rally’ [Video]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) should investigate how some students on a recent school field trip ended up at a rally where pro-Palestinian slogans were shouted.

“It’s disgraceful… [The students] should be in the classroom learning about reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, the whole shebang, but instead, the TDSB and these teachers want to bring them down to a rally, a Palestinian rally, and it’s ridiculous,” Ford said at an unrelated news conference on Monday.

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On Wednesday, the TDSB said, an undisclosed number of students attended the Grassy Narrows River Run, which was organized to highlight the mercury contamination within the northern Ontario First Nation.

The field trip was billed as an educational experience, where students would hear from Indigenous voices about the challenges facing the people of Grassy Narrows.

However, videos circulating on social media showed some young students taking part in the march and …