Sitting on Regional Council is a lot of work.
If you reduce Regional Council to just the 12 mayors, who’s going to do all the work?
Continue reading “Who’s going to do all the work?”Tag: politics
Who will control Regional Council?
Let’s have a look.
In Bob Gale’s letter to Minister Flack of Wednesday, March 4, 2026, he recommended the following voting system:
Continue reading “Who will control Regional Council?”Weighted voting based on population
That each mayor’s vote at Regional Council be weighted according to population in increments of 15,000 residents (e.g., a municipality of 100,000 residents would have six votes; a municipality of 6,000 residents would have one vote), reflecting both representation by population and municipal diversity.
How did we get here?
This keeps coming up, so I’m hoping the following will clarify.
How did Bob Gale become Chair of the Niagara Region, and why didn’t anyone do anything to stop it?
Continue reading “How did we get here?”A tale of two letters
I was at work when all of this went down yesterday, but I’m going to try to provide the best overview I can of the events of yesterday.
First, at a Committee of the Whole meeting on Thursday, February 26, 2026, where – if I’m not mistaken – only one Councillor was absent (they were out of the country), Council passed a motion that included this resolution:
Continue reading “A tale of two letters”That Regional Council DIRECTS Chair Gale to refrain from any further action and utilization of any further Regional resources or staff time, with the exception of the above, in connection with a review of Regional governance or municipal amalgamation.
Called it
At the Committee of the Whole meeting on Thursday, February 26, 2026, I opened my remarks with:
Continue reading “Called it”I would imagine that the reason these letters weren’t shared with the directly-elected Regional Councillors until well after they were sent and still not by the Regional Chair is because the decision has already been made that the next election will not include directly-elected Regional Councillors, so why ask for their opinions at all.
It is incredible to me the disdain that some politicians have for… politicians. And, every single time I’ve seen this disdain, it has – without fail – been about those disdainful politicians wanting more power for themselves.
