The un-elected bureaucrats are running the show in most municpalities. It appears, the councillors are NOT informed or are familiar with understanding where municipal authority lies. This seems to be done intentionally, so that municipal councillors don't to their due diligence and become derelick in their duties. Their job is to protect the private interests of the property owners' investments within the municipality. They do that by making themselves familiar with the authority of the Municipal Act to ensure BYLAWS are not created that are beyond the lawful authority of the municipality. Under the Municipal Councillors Guide of Ontario, sec. 7 ... it states Councillors (as Lawmakers) are supposed to familarize themselves with the Municipal Act, the Planning Act, the Charter of Rights & Freedoms. If they did their job as they should be, many property owners would not be dealing with these kind of issues. It is written within these legislative Acts that municpalities DO NOT HAVE AUTHORITY to regulate private property without the consent of the property owner. They have to ACQUIRE the land or enter into some kind of agreement with the private property owner; and that agreement is registered on the title to the property ... BEFORE they can put exercise any kind of regulation on property, including zoning it or changing the zoning of it .... if that property does not belong to them.

Good interview. Thank you.

Wishing you the very best Patricia!

Wishing you all the very best Patricia!