The Middlesex Centre Record

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

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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 0 of 3,225 motions — none 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

John Brennan

Deputy Mayor · seen 2020-01-22 to 2026-07-02

Of the 146 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 237 substantive and 121 procedural motions, and seconded 227. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Aina DeViet

Mayor · seen 2020-01-22 to 2026-07-02

Of the 147 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 2 substantive and 0 procedural motions, and seconded 3. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Ward 1

Jean Coles

Councillor · Ward 1 · seen 2024-11-06 to 2026-07-02

Of the 58 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 54 substantive and 58 procedural motions, and seconded 48. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Ward 2

Wayne Shipley

Councillor · Ward 2 · seen 2020-01-22 to 2026-07-02

Of the 162 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 347 substantive and 181 procedural motions, and seconded 286. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Ward 3

Hugh Aerts

Councillor · Ward 3 · seen 2020-01-22 to 2026-07-02

Of the 164 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 195 substantive and 123 procedural motions, and seconded 243. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Ward 4

Sue Cates

Councillor · Ward 4 · seen 2021-03-10 to 2026-07-02

Of the 157 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 467 substantive and 264 procedural motions, and seconded 498. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Ward 5

Frank Berze

Councillor · Ward 5 · seen 2022-11-16 to 2026-07-02

Of the 110 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 265 substantive and 153 procedural motions, and seconded 187. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Also on this council

Heffernan former

Councillor · seen 2020-01-22 to 2024-09-18

Of the 100 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 234 substantive and 61 procedural motions, and seconded 316. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Every council meeting (168 meetings)

2026 — 20 meetings
2025 — 36 meetings
Striking CommitteeJuly 14, 2025
2024 — 33 meetings
2023 — 25 meetings
2022 — 26 meetings
INAUGURAL COUNCILNovember 16, 2022
2021 — 26 meetings
2020 — 2 meetings