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Does the power go to your head?

by RUST-D'EYE G
Does the power go to your head?
Published in July 2010 - Page 27

The position of head of a municipal council is a statutory office, the highest in the municipal hierarchy, with responsibilities both specific and undefined, involving both the functioning of the council and fulfilment by the municipal corporation of its purposes, and having both actual and symbolic importance.

It is, of course, not the head, but the council, that exercises the powers of a municipality. In Ontario, the role and powers of the head set out

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