In a world where all too often parental concerns are ignored by politicians and educational decision makers alike, the government of New Brunswick continues to show what real accountability looks like!

Provincial Education Minister Bill Hogan is making good on his promise to begin the process of dissolving the Anglophone East District Education Council (DEC) should it continue to ignore the government’s directives concerning informing parents of their children’s gender identity explorations at school.

Back on May 9^th, Hogan received cabinet authorization to begin the unprecedented process of dissolving the DEC. 

Hogan said he would take such action if the DEC didn’t stop spending tax dollars on legal appeals of Premier Blaine Higgs’ government’s revision of Policy 713, which ensured that parents are informed when students younger than 16 seek to change the names or pronouns by which they are identified at school. 

On July 5, after a judge dismissed the DEC’s lawsuit against the government, Hogan filed the paperwork with Moncton’s Court of King’s Bench asking a judge to approve dissolution of the DEC, after a judge dismissed the board’s lawsuit against the government.

The application mentions the DEC’s efforts to “undermine and defy” corrective actions, along with its having spent nearly $400,000 of public money on the case against the province.

“The DEC continues to expand its resources in an irresponsible manner and is unable to function due to organization difficulties.”

-New Brunswick Government’s Application to Dissolve the DEC

This is the latest chapter in the dispute between the DEC, which oversees Moncton-area schools, and the provincial government that enacted changes to the gender-identity policy last year. 

Bravo to Bill Hogan and the entire Blaine Higgs government for sticking to their guns in the face of activists who seem to have forgotten that their job is to guide and protect children in their educational journey, not to score virtue signal points by bowing to the tenets of dangerously misguided gender ideology.

Opinion polls, both in New Brunswick and elsewhere, have proven that policies keeping parents informed about what their children are doing at school are supported by an overwhelming majority of the public.

If the radical minority of gender ideologues at the DEC can’t follow the government directive that respects parents, they should face the consequences that Bill Hogan isn’t afraid to impose.