Doug Ford Continues to Perpetuate DEI

From PAFE https://www.pafe.ca/

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are three words that should send shivers down your spine. While individuals and families in Ontario are waking up to the damage inflicted by DEI, Doug Ford’s government continues to double down and barrel forward.

We’d like to point your attention back to the tragic story of former Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal Richard Bilkszto who committed suicide in 2021 after being bullied by TDSB’s contracted DEI and anti-racism initiatives, and was publicly humiliated and bullied for two long years in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. A formal review of the circumstances leading up to his death was never performed.

Do you recall the controversial TDSB field trip-turned-political-protest? Parents were told their children (some as young as eight years old) were going to witness (and not engage with) a “community event” that was meant to bring awareness to the mercury poisoning on Grassy Narrows Indigenous community. Instead, students were encouraged by their teachers to participate in a pro-Palestine protest which included anti-Semitic chanting “From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime.” Some students were told to wear blue shirts to identify them as colonizers, and others came home with “Zionist Kills” stickers.  In the TDSB there have been several complaints of anti-Semitism within the school board in the name of DEI. This specific incident, certainly wouldn’t have helped matters, seeing as many of the Jewish children on this field trip expressed feeling unsafe and uncomfortable.

Parents of the students on this field trip were rightfully upset, however no teachers were disciplined, and the TDSB trustees were hesitant to allow a review of this incident.

We acknowledge that these are two very different issues, but the root is the same pervasive rot: the radical agenda of DEI. Wherever it goes, discrimination, racism, and bullying seem to follow. Is this a coincidence or is this one of the fundamental issues with DEI?

Where does Doug Ford fit into all of this? The examples above are just a couple of many DEI-induced issues within TDSB. The Ford government continues to have the opportunity to reform DEI’s deep-rooted toxicity, but they choose to continue to perpetuate it instead. Why is it allowed to still wreak havoc on Ontario’s schools?

Patrick Case, former Minister of Education Chief Equity Officer for Kathleen Wynne was the man hired by the Ford government, to conduct a review of the TDSB field trip incident. He had a hand in introducing critical race theory and DEI ideology into Ontario’s curriculum. Patrick Case works closely with Colleen Russell-Rawlins, the TDSB education director who signed off on hiring Kike Ojo-Thompson, the race activist who bullied Richard Bilkszto in two separate anti-racism sessions in the spring before his death. Why is Doug Ford recycling Kathleen Wynne’s henchmen to fix an issue started by her?

Quite frankly – Doug Ford needs to fix his government’s mess. He needs to repeal the woke sex-ed, gender theory, and DEI that his government perpetuates in our schools. It’s absurd and careless to appoint someone like Patrick Case, to solve an issue that he directly helped to cause in the first place.

When will Doug Ford stop pandering to the far-left ideologies and start putting Ontario’s families first?