An alleged breach of its code of conduct by a Waterloo Region District School Board trustee requires no further inquiry, the integrity commissioner has concluded.
On Aug. 2, the board put out a statement on its website in regards to an active code of conduct investigation of a trustee.
The individual or individuals under investigation were not named in the release, but soon after receiving the notice trustee Mike Ramsay took to social media.
"The school trustee game of thrones continues," said Ramsay in a statement he released on social media.
"This complaint is about something I supposedly said in meetings and on a radio show years ago.”
In a statement on the public board's website on Aug. 14, board chair Joanne Weston announced that the integrity commissioner found that the alleged contravention of the code was outside of the time-limited window set by section 28 of the Code as six months had passed by the time the complaint was submitted.
The allegations were in relation to non-compliance with board policies, which have since been addressed under the policies themselves, the statement says.
Given the complaint involved one or more trustees, it was required to be treated as an in-camera item under the code.
"As Trustees, we are governed by the Education Act, which is not the same as the governance of municipalities," the statement read.
"Education Act differs from the Municipal Act in such a way that we are required to handle circumstances like this through in camera processes."
If the allegations were aimed at Ramsay, this is not the first time he has been investigated by the board for breaches in its code of conduct.
In June 2022, Ramsay was suspended from participating in board meetings for three months after a report from the integrity commissioner found him in violation of the code of conduct.
The investigation concluded that Ramsay breached the code of conduct through social media posts and public positions after the board decided to stop a presentation about the age-appropriateness of library materials from former teacher, Carolyn Burjoski’s at a Jan. 17, 2022 meeting.
Ramsay is currently taking the school board to court to argue his suspension was unjust.
