Andrew Wood won the Halton District School Board trustee seat for Milton Wards 1 and 2 in a decisive 83 per cent victory, defeating Khadiga Metwally by 10,792 votes and a nearly five-to-one margin.
Wood told Juno News his candidacy represented an effort to give Milton families an alternative and restore stability to a board he feared could become consumed by controversy.
“It really was about giving our community a choice, and there wasn’t going to be one,” Wood said. “I think that the HDSB board would be very distracted for a long time because of the publicity around this. And I hope my candidacy can bring some order to that.”
“The truth matters,” he said. “I think when you put yourself in a position for a public role, then you owe the public the truth.”
