Robin Jones
Association of Municipalities of Ontario
President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO).
Connected Scandals
Bill 9, branded the "Municipal Accountability Act," strips municipalities of the power to write their own codes of conduct and creates a councillor-removal process that requires a near-unanimous vote of the sitting council — a threshold the lawyer who literally wrote Ontario's leading municipal law text calls "fatally flawed."
President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, the body whose August 2026 conference hosted both the province's $1-billion infrastructure announcement for municipalities that do not collect development charges (August 16, 2026) and the release of the anonymous survey of 32 municipal Chief Administrative Officers describing retaliation for public disagreement with the province.