Union calls on four trustees at an Ontario Catholic school board to step down after lavish Italy trip

A local teachers’ union at an Ontario Catholic school board has called on four trustees, including the board’s chair, to resign after they spent more than $120,000 in public funds on a trip to Italy this summer to buy religious artwork for a new high school that is being built.In a letter sent to four of the six trustees at Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board in Brantford on Thursday, the union wrote that the “inappropriate” spending on the trip has “significantly eroded confidence in your ability to make sound, responsible decisions that reflect the needs and values of our school community.”