A group of nine fired B.C. school board trustees in the Victoria area are challenging their dismissal in court, and a judge decided on Wednesday to let the case move forward, finding the group may have a case that the education minister's order to remove them could have been made in "bad faith."

While the case has not yet been tried in court, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lindsay LeBlanc found there is "some basis" for the allegations, and ordered the government to produce all documents relied on by the minister in the lead-up to the decision, as well as all communications between the minister's office and a list of other agencies and police departments involved.

The suit stems from a decision by the Greater Victoria School District (SD 61) in 2023 not to allow police in the district's scho

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