Quesnel mayor successfully challenges censure, sanction over book

By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen A BC Supreme Court judge has quashed three resolutions to censure and sanction the City of Quesnel’s mayor made last spring. Mayor Ron Paull successfully claimed that Quesnel city council’s April 30 decisions against him were made without procedural fairness. Councillors voted to withdraw Paull’s travel budget and remove him from city committees and the Cariboo Regional District board after his wife shared a book disputing residential school history. The book offended members of the Lhtako Dene First Nation, which signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate with the city in 2017. “I do not mean to suggest that there was any attempt in this case to misuse powers for cheap political gain,” Justice William Veenstra wrote in his March…

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