The B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal brought by Candice Servatius, an evangelical Protestant, whose claim against the Port Alberni school district was struck down by the B.C. Supreme Court in 2020.
The events in question, which occurred in 2015 and 2016, were demonstrations of local Indigenous culture and not expressions of the school district's beliefs or religious favouritism, the B.C. Supreme Court judge had ruled. "It is uncontroversial that public educational institutions need to be involved in reconciliation," the Appeal Court judge wrote.
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