$250,000 could pay for two additional teachers or 10,000 textbooks or 83 electrical outlets or…...

Doretta is quoted in this Toronto Sun article about a $250,000 Toronto byelection to replace a trustee who resigned from the post. 

When a trustee needs to be replaced in one of my local school boards, they just appoint the runner-up from the previous election - at zero cost to the taxpayer. It's not as if trustees matter, after all.

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