RE 🇨🇦3d ago

Irritated by the Ford government's appointment of regional chairs, but it seems like the chairs haven't always been the most democratic position.

In the days of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth, I remember elections for the chair, but apparently this wasn't the norm.

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Show threadRE 🇨🇦
I think the difference is that before Ford, the chairs that weren't elected were appointed by their own regional councillors. It was a bottom-up, rather than top-down appointment.
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Show threadDarcy Casselman3d ago
@hewer_of_code Waterloo's regional chair has been elected at least since the 90s. I think in the 70s regional council was appointed by the lower tier councils from people elected to those councils. So you had be voted in by somebody.
Show threadRE 🇨🇦3d ago

@flyingsquirrel @flyingsquirrel yeah. Waterloo and Halton are/were the only ones doing direct elections up to now.

Other ones I guess do it like Waterloo used to. The chair was chosen by local municipal politicians, even when they weren't elected.

Now, it's people from outside making those decisions.