Council

The 7 members seated on the 2022–2026 council, and the 1 member who sat in it and left. Each is placed here by the minutes that record them present at council, never inferred from a motion.

Council of 2022–2026 · 2018–2022 · 2014–2018

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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 4 of 3,581 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

Michael Akpata

Deputy Mayor · seen 2017-01-10 to 2026-09-22

Of the 349 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 178 substantive and 54 procedural motions, and seconded 360. 2 for and 1 against across the 3 recorded votes they were present for.

Crystal Meloche

Mayor · seen 2017-01-10 to 2026-09-22

Of the 339 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 354 substantive and 60 procedural motions, and seconded 318. 2 for and 1 against across the 3 recorded votes they were present for.

Also on this council

Terry Burns

Councillor · seen 2017-01-10 to 2026-09-22

Of the 227 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 444 substantive and 50 procedural motions, and seconded 236. 0 for and 3 against across the 3 recorded votes they were present for.

Mark Carrick

Councillor · seen 2018-12-11 to 2026-09-22

Of the 302 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 317 substantive and 56 procedural motions, and seconded 330. 3 for and 0 against across the 3 recorded votes they were present for.

Jeff Renaud

Councillor · seen 2017-01-10 to 2026-09-22

Of the 344 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 614 substantive and 180 procedural motions, and seconded 523. 3 for and 0 against across the 3 recorded votes they were present for.

Anita Riccio-Spagnuolo

Councillor · seen 2018-12-11 to 2026-09-22

Of the 307 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 273 substantive and 79 procedural motions, and seconded 475. 1 for and 3 against across the 4 recorded votes they were present for.

Mike Seguin

Councillor · seen 2025-10-28 to 2026-09-22

Of the 44 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 42 substantive and 3 procedural motions, and seconded 54. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Sue Desjarlais former

Councillor · seen 2017-01-10 to 2025-04-22

Of the 284 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 439 substantive and 71 procedural motions, and seconded 439. 0 for and 1 against across the 1 recorded votes they were present for.