Former Alberta Trustee Launches Legal Challenge Over ‘Expulsion’ by Catholic School Board

A former Alberta Catholic School Board trustee who was forced to resign over social media posts about gender issues is asking the courts to review the school board’s decision to remove her from her position. The Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools (RDCRS) voted in November to disqualify trustee Monique LaGrange from her position after they said she did not adhere to a board-imposed sanction to avoid posting on social media about gender ideology. Ms. LaGrange’s lawyer, James Kitchen, has filed two applications for judicial review with the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta against RDCRS. Ms. LaGrange’s case is being supported by The Democracy Fund (TDF), which said in a Dec. 20 release that the “applications argue that the board’s decisions to censure and expel LaGrange lacked fairness and contained a number of legal errors, including misinterpretation of the board’s policies.”...