Stiles responds to Todd Smith's resignation

QUEEN'S PARK —​ ​Marit Stiles, leader of the Ontario NDP, responded to the abrupt resignation of Conservative cabinet minister Todd Smith:

“People in Ontario deserve a government that treats our children’s education and the system that cares for our littlest ones as valuable, not trivial.

Both of these sectors are in crisis. That the brand-new Education minister and minister in charge of Child Care abruptly jumps ship with less than three months on the job, the day after an important, long-delayed funding formula announcement for child care and just weeks before school is starting, shows the level of seriousness with which Doug Ford and his politicians take kids and families.

Families deserve a government that invests in schools, reduces class sizes and put students and kids first."