The Ombudsman reviewed a complaint that council for the Municipality of Brockton contravened the open meeting rules on February 14, 2023 when it discussed a partnership proposal during a closed session. The Ombudsman found that discussions about the partnership proposal di...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2023/municipality-of-brockton
The Ombudsman reviewed a complaint about a gathering of a quorum of members of council for the Township of Morley on December 14, 2022. The complaint alleged that the gathering was a meeting that did not comply with the open meeting rules in the Municipal Act, 2001 . The ...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2023/township-of-morley
The Ombudsman investigated a closed meeting held by council for the Town of Cochrane on February 13, 2024 about the resignation of its integrity commissioner. The Ombudsman found that council’s discussion about the integrity commissioner’s role with the municipality fit withi...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2024/town-of-cochrane
Working with school boards to resolve complaints
/resources/news/in-the-news/2017/the-role-of-the-ombudsman-(opc-register)
The Ombudsman determined that the Town of Mattawa’s Ad Hoc Heritage Committee held a series of improperly closed meetings.
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2011/town-of-mattawa
We received a complaint that council for the Town of Amherstburg discussed approval of the town’s accounts payable over email during December 2014 and January 2015. We also received complaints that council discussed items in closed meetings on October 14 and 26, 2015 that did...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2016/town-of-amherstburg
The Ombudsman reviewed a complaint that the April 19, 2022 electronic presentation of the Huronia Airport Task Force was not broadcast in the manner specified on the public notice. The Ombudsman found that the Huronia Airport Task Force was a committee of the Town of Mi...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2023/huronia-airport-task-force
The Ombudsman found that a July 25, 2014 closed-door meeting between members of Hamilton's Government Relations Contact Team and two Members of Provincial Parliament did not constitute a meeting of council or a committee of council for the purpose of the open meeting requirem...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2014/city-of-hamilton
The Ombudsman found that council for the City of Elliot Lake did not contravene the Municipal Act, 2001 during in-camera meetings on April 13 and April 17, 2015. In addition, there was no evidence that an informal meeting took place on April 17, 2015 following the meeting o...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2015/city-of-elliot-lake-en
Council for the Town of Grimsby contravened the Municipal Act and the municipality’s procedure by-law when it discussed a municipally-controlled corporation, Niagara Power Inc., in camera on May 2, 2016. The discussion did not fit within any of the exceptions to the open me...
/resources/reports,-cases-and-submissions/municipal-meetings/2016/town-of-grimsby