Education Minister Paul Calandra tabled a bill Monday with the sole purpose of firing one school board trustee.

It is related to a $45,000 trip that four trustees from the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board took last year to Italy, where they bought $100,000 worth of art for the board.

Calandra has said for months that three of the four trustees paid back their expenses, but the fourth was refusing and if he continued to do so, he would be fired.

“We said, ‘pay it back or we fire you’ and today is the culmination of that promise,” Calandra said after introducing the legislation.

“We’re going to fire him and make an example out of him.”

Calandra said that trustees’ Italy expenses amounted to about $50,000 in travel costs, which he called “both excessive and unjustif

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