Here’s what the school trustee simply forgot to mention...

His school division benefited generously from the $10 million funding in PPE for students and staff which purchased 1.6 million reusable masks and 466,000 litres of sanitizer province-wide. https://twitter.com/michaeljanz/status/1337260425285566465

He forgot to mention that they benefited from major investments to schools with $120 million in increased operational funding, $250 million in accelerated capital maintenance funding – including HVAC & ventilation upgrades – & access to $363 million in taxpayer-funded reserves.

He forgot to mention that coupled with the $262 million in federal taxpayer funding, school authorities have access to $1 billion in additional funds, of which three quarters was directly funded by Alberta taxpayers.

Forgot to mention that of the $120 million increase in total operational funding from the province, EPSB received an additional $13.4 million. Of the $250 million in accelerated capital maintenance funding, Alberta taxpayers invested $31.4 million into Edmonton Public Schools.

He forgot to mention that EPSB has $44 million in accumulated operating surplus available in their reserves. They also received $37.4 million in federal funding for COVID-related costs.

When facts are replaced by silence, the silence becomes a lie.

And lying by omission isn’t any more honest than plain old lying