FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12 December 2025
QUEEN’S PARK, ON. – Today, MPP John Fraser, Ontario Liberal Parliamentary Leader and Critic for Education, issued the following statement regarding the dismissal of the director of the Toronto District School Board:
We now have people with no discernible background in education firing leaders with years of experience, because the Minister thinks he can run Ontario’s education system from his office at Queen’s Park.
Minister Calandra treats education like a one-man show. Instead of working with teachers, administrators, trustees, and even his own ministry – he points the finger of blame. It’s always somebody else’s fault.
Firing a chief executive without cause is costly. Taxpayers cover the severance, with no improvement in classrooms, no reduction in class sizes, and no added support for students.
With little information about this decision, parents are once again left in the dark about the state of their children’s education.
After nearly eight years in government, the Premier and his Minister still refuse to focus on the real problems in schools. Class sizes have grown. Special education has been starved. The mental health crisis has been ignored.