Astonishingly, Section 90 empowers a majority of trustees on any school board to literally “un-elect” their colleagues, thereby reversing the results of democratic elections and nullifying the people’s votes. It says the following:

“If a person is disqualified under section 87 or 88 from remaining as a trustee of the board, the person shall immediately resign.”

In Red Deer, this anti-democracy provision was weaponized by woke trustees to continue frustrating parental rights and push an anti-family agenda.

This came to the forefront when, on November 14, 2023, Monique LaGrange, a duly-elected trustee in the Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools (RDCRS) was ousted from her position by her colleagues for criticizing LGBT indoctrination in schools.

At the start of the 2023 school year, Ms. LaGrange shared a post on social media comparing the LGBT indoctrination we see in Canada’s classrooms to the Nazi-era ideological indoctrination of children throughout German schools.

Monique’s fellow trustees, woke as they are, were incensed by the fact that someone would dare to question the brainwashing of children in the schools with transgender and homosexual ideology, so they began a campaign to cancel her.

First, they tried to silence Ms. Lagrange by imposing unreasonable “sanctions” on her, but that wasn’t enough.

The next step was to weaponize Section 90 of the Education Act to undemocratically remove her from office.

By doing so, this group of self-appointed overlords overturned the will of the people who voted to have Ms. LaGrange represent them in the RDCRS. What these anti-democratic trustees did, in essence, was to un-elect Monique.

This move sets a dangerous precedent that could be followed by other left-wing trustees in Alberta who want to silence political opponents with whom they disagree.

Here in Canada, though, it’s the people who are supposed to choose their elected representatives, and it’s the people who vote them out of power – not some elite, private clique. 

Albertans have always cherished democratic freedom, and that’s why Section 90 is such an affront to our core values. 

Take Action: Email & Call Your MLA

Section 90 needs to be repealed so the democratic voice of Albertans won’t ever be silenced in this way again.

This is why we’re asking Alberta residents to fill out the Action Alert Email form on this page to quickly email a pre-scripted, editable message to their local MLA. Encourage them to introduce a bill to repeal the anti-democracy provision contained in the province’s Education Act! You can double your impact by susequently using our tool again to phone or tweet at your MLA, by clicking the corresponding icons.