The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled class size and composition should be included as part of contract talks with the province, handing down a decision in favour of BC's teachers. The decision overturns a B-C Court of Appeal ruling.
BC NDP Education critic, Rob Fleming, says besides restoring the right to negotiate class size and composition to the B.C Teacher's union, the ruling does something else. He says it upholds the 2012 findings of Madam Justice Griffin which found the Liberal government intentionally sought to diliberately provoke a strike aimed at pitting parents and kids against teachers. Griffin says the scheme was to develop animosity towards teachers, using the public as political pawns.
"I mean how synical does it get? So that ruling, the government denied it. They denied the evidence that was given by beaurocrats and others who participated in that scheme. That decision was upheld today."
Fleming says the Liberal government has been obsessed with confrontation which has kept the matter in the courts for over a decade, and adversely affected a generation of school children.
Fleming was speaking with CFAX 1070's Mark Brennae.