In 2019, the province tasked Michael Fenn (a former Deputy Minister and City Manager) and Ken Seiling (a former Chair of the Region of Waterloo) with a governance review in Niagara.
The report has never been released publicly and, at the November 16, 2023 Council meeting, (former) Councillor Fred Davies and I brought a motion directing the Chair to request the report from the Premier and Cabinet.
To this day, the report has not been released. We have no idea what it says.
I’m speculating, because that’s all I can do, but if I had the money to do so, I’d bet it essentially says: Leave Niagara alone.
If it recommended significant reforms, I would imagine those who are most concerned about how “broken,” “expensive,” “inefficient,” “dysfunctional,” and/or “doomed” we are would be waving it around as evidence that reform is required.
Laura Ip - Regional Councillor 