Michael Zwaagstra: Waterloo School Board’s Sidelining of Trustee Is an Affront to Democracy
Commentary
It’s now been more than two months since Mike Ramsay, a duly elected trustee in the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB), was effectively fired. However, he wasn’t removed by the voters, but rather by six of his fellow trustees. This was very strange, to say the least.
Ramsay is certainly not a political novice. In fact, he has been a trustee since 1989. Ramsay is a former police officer and a military veteran with a distinguished career. He also happens to be the WRDSB’s only non-white trustee. However, none of these things mattered to the six colleagues who voted to suspend him until the end of September….