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DRESCHEL: Trustees uses province as ‘bogeyman’
Liberal cabinet minister Ted McMeekin says the education ministry put “absolutely no pressure” on the public school board to abandon the option of building its new headquarters downtown.
McMeekin says fears the province might pull its support for the headquarters stem not from government coercion but the “skittishness” of trustees.
“This board tends to be risk averse and fairly conservative,” said McMeekin, minister of agriculture and MPP for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale.
“It’s unfortunate they terminated the process they agreed to.”
McMeekin was responding to the suggestion that the board prematurely bailed on the proposal to build at the historic Cannon Knitting Mills in the heart of Beasley neighbourhood out of fear the ministry might change its mind about the $31.6 million headquarters
(The Spec article can be found here.)
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