PCs broke 2020 promise to require P.E.I. school boards to report sexual misconduct: Greens [Video]

Questions were raised in the P.E.I. legislature Friday about why the government didn’t follow through on a commitment it made five years ago to keep better tabs on sexual misconduct in Island schools.

The Progressive Conservatives made that commitment in 2020 in light of the case of Roger Jabbour, the former band teacher at Colonel Gray High School who had been convicted in 2018 of sexually touching three female students. 

After the case had made its way through the court, Green MLA Karla Bernard put forward a proposed amendment to the Education Act to require school boards to report annually on the number of sexual misconduct complaints. 

At the province’s insistence, that amendment was turned into an order to be brought forward by then-education minister Brad Trivers. That never happened, Bernard pointed out on Friday in the legislature. 

She said it’s something that might have prevented an April 2024 case …