UCP government pauses their own book ban
Naheed Nenshi, Leader of Alberta’s New Democrats, issued the following statement on the UCP government’s book ban pause:
“Yet again, an attempt by the UCP to distract from their horrific record has backfired. They’re still making it up as they go along leaping from crisis to crisis. We have the lowest funding per student in the country. The teachers are about to go on strike. Class sizes have never been larger. And what does Premier Smith think is important? Asking girls (not boys) to prove their sex and banning books.
“Of course material must be age appropriate. No one disagrees with that. But instead of funding teacher-librarians and creating common sense guidelines, they wrote a poorly thought-out ministerial order, that the Minister himself didn’t understand when he introduced it. What did they think would happen?
“Yet again their own incompetence and inability to manage complex files has led to wasted time, wasted money, and unneeded stress. Albertans deserve better.”
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