Dufferin County

The Ombudsman received a complaint regarding a closed meeting held by Dufferin County’s Infrastructure and Environmental Services Standing Committee on April 28, 2022. The complaint alleged that there was no notice given to the public that the Committee would be closing a portion of the April 28, 2022 meeting and that the subject matter did not fit within any of the exceptions to the open meeting rules in the Municipal Act, 2001. The Ombudsman found that the Committee did not contravene the Act when it proceeded into closed session and that the in camera discussion fit within the exception to the open meeting rules for advice subject to solicitor-client privilege.

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