I laughed out loud when I read Trudy Klassen’s column detailing what it was like to live in the culture she was born into. At the end, she exhorts everyone to practice tolerance and kindness in order to combat the concern that someone else (she calls them guardians) who were not elected would be the final arbiters in disagreements.
Correct me please if I am wrong but wasn’t Trudy one of a group of people who parked their cars in the parking lot of the school district office and honked their horns in protest so that the school trustees were not able to conduct the business they were elected for? At a time when the trustees were working very hard to ensure that education could be delivered, was that tolerant or kind?
Again, correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t Trudy also one of the people who was unsuccessful in her bid to become a school trustee? I seem to remember that she home schooled her children so it is unlikely (but of course not impossible) that she or her family had a close tie to the old school name.
I am just musing and I may be wrong but it seems to me that perhaps Trudy used this issue to create further dissent and to raise her profile in anticipation of another bid for school board. If that is the case, I certainly hope the people of Prince George will remember her intolerance when it comes to the next election.
Does it ever occur to her that the First Nations may look at her as one of those “unelected guardians?”
Sandi Kubert
Prince George
