Council

The 11 members seated on the 2022–2026 council. Each is placed here by the minutes that record them present at council, never inferred from a motion.

Council of 2022–2026 · 2018–2022

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What these columns mean

They measure different things and are not interchangeable. Moving a motion usually means sponsoring a staff report’s recommendation onto the floor. Seconding puts a motion up for debate and is often a seat convention rather than agreement. Meetings are counted against the ones each member was on the record for — not against the whole term, because members join and leave mid-term, so two members’ figures here are not comparable.

Individual positions exist for 20 of 2,885 motions — under 1% of them — because Ontario law records names only when a member asks. Members ask on the most contentious items, so that is a deliberately skewed sample and says nothing about the rest.

Mayor

Martin Ritsma

Mayor · seen 2022-08-29 to 2026-08-10

Of the 271 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 76 substantive and 28 procedural motions, and seconded 17. 0 for and 9 against across the 9 recorded votes they were present for.

Also on this council

Brad Beatty

Councillor · seen 2022-08-29 to 2026-07-27

Of the 349 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 233 substantive and 57 procedural motions, and seconded 108. 0 for and 11 against across the 11 recorded votes they were present for.

Lesley Biehn

Councillor · seen 2022-11-24 to 2026-07-27

Of the 295 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 197 substantive and 41 procedural motions, and seconded 243. 0 for and 5 against across the 5 recorded votes they were present for.

Taylor Briscoe

Councillor · seen 2022-11-24 to 2026-08-10

Of the 275 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 73 substantive and 16 procedural motions, and seconded 160. 0 for and 5 against across the 5 recorded votes they were present for.

Jo-Dee Burbach

Councillor · seen 2022-08-29 to 2026-08-10

Of the 344 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 501 substantive and 110 procedural motions, and seconded 429. 0 for and 4 against across the 4 recorded votes they were present for.

Bonnie Henderson

Councillor · seen 2022-08-29 to 2026-08-10

Of the 311 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 274 substantive and 46 procedural motions, and seconded 185. 0 for and 6 against across the 6 recorded votes they were present for.

Mark Hunter

Councillor · seen 2022-11-24 to 2026-08-10

Of the 322 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 288 substantive and 76 procedural motions, and seconded 210. 0 for and 4 against across the 4 recorded votes they were present for.

Larry McCabe

Councillor · seen 2022-11-24 to 2026-08-10

Of the 334 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 245 substantive and 80 procedural motions, and seconded 285. 0 for and 7 against across the 7 recorded votes they were present for.

Harjinder Nijjar

Councillor · seen 2022-11-24 to 2026-08-10

Of the 346 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 148 substantive and 54 procedural motions, and seconded 377. 0 for and 8 against across the 8 recorded votes they were present for.

Cody Sebben

Councillor · seen 2022-08-29 to 2026-08-10

Of the 304 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 147 substantive and 36 procedural motions, and seconded 79. 0 for and 11 against across the 11 recorded votes they were present for.

Geza Wordofa

Councillor · seen 2022-11-24 to 2026-08-10

Of the 313 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 35 substantive and 9 procedural motions, and seconded 142. 0 for and 7 against across the 7 recorded votes they were present for.