Local Public School Board
After Brassard retired from provincial politics, he became an elected trustee on, and chair of Chinook's Edge School Division No. 73, a public school district, in Ward 8 (Didsbury).
In 2005 Brassard found that because he was Catholic he may not be able to remain on the board. According to the Alberta School Act, if an area has a Catholic separate school district, a Catholic person in the area can not belong to the public board. After Brassard had been elected to the board, local Catholics voted to make the area part of a Catholic Separate board (effective in 2005). That meant legally, Brassard was no longer allowed to remain on the public board. The board supported Brassard in calling this discrimination, and filing a Human Rights Complaint with the provincial Human Rights Commission. They have also requested the province change the School Act. Brassard would be eligible to run for the Catholic school district. However, he said his children went to the public system, so that is where he felt he should serve.
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