‘Crazy Decision’: Eby Speaks Out After School Board Pulls ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Due to ‘Equity’ Priorities

B.C. Premier David Eby has called the Surrey school board’s decision to remove “To Kill a Mockingbird” over “equity” concerns a bad idea. “It’s a profoundly anti-racist book,” Mr. Eby told reporters on Feb. 29. “I think for those who are suggesting that it should be banned, they just need to give it a read to understand the power,” The Surrey School District has pulled several books from its curriculum reading list, including Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which covers the issues of racism and prejudice through the story of a young girl, her father—a lawyer—and a black man falsely accused of a crime....