CBC Manitoba: He was convicted for sexually touching a student. Years later, he still had a Manitoba teaching certificate

Cameron Hauseman, an associate professor of educational administration at the University of Manitoba, said it’s important to follow protocol to ensure a person’s reputation isn’t “thrown through the mud because of a false allegation.” 

But when the province takes years to revoke the teaching certificate of someone convicted for “heinous crimes,” the public trust in the education system, and its capacity to protect children, is called into question, he said.

“That’s a gap in the legislation that our current government needs to alleviate,” he said. “We don’t want abusers in the classroom.”

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