While the bill has been broadly welcomed, there’s growing concern in the municipal sector that the process it outlines is so complex that it might be unusable in practice.
Published Jul 2, 2025 at 7:46pm
PC MPP Rob Flack attends Question Period at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
What to do when an elected councillor becomes a chronic source of disruption, misinformation, or worse, and refuses to resign?
The existing answer, under Ontario law, is: not much.
Pickering councillor Lisa Robinson, for example, has now gone a full calendar year without pay, but not a single day without her seat on council.
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