Govt Roles

Do you have any concerns? Know who to contact to help YOU

 

Municipal government / City of London / Your City Councillor

Find your councillor at the following link: london.ca/yourcitycouncil

 

Responsibilities:

  • Garbage collection and recycling
  • Snow removal and maintenance of public properties and sidewalks
  • Parks and Community Centre spaces
  • Creating new city roads and maintaining existing ones
  • Concerns over municipal laws or by-laws and their respective officers, including property standards, parking, etc.
  • London Police services, that implement provincial and federal law
  • Planning and building applications and permits on developments (type, location, size etc.) in all classes, residential, industrial & commercial
  • Council also has representation on local boards and commissions such as transit, tourism, housing, library, etc

 

Provincial government / Toronto, Ontario / Your MPP

  1. London Fanshawe – Teresa Armstrong: [email protected]
  2. London North Centre – Terrence Kernaghan: [email protected]
  3. London West – Peggy Sattler at [email protected]

 

Responsibilities:

  • Education (including school management and the school boards)
  • Healthcare, including Long Term Care and Mental Health & Addictions treatment
  • Landlord - Tenant disputes & rental regulations under the Residential Tenancies Act
  • Labour laws
  • Some taxes
  • The Ontario Planning Act (which regulates planning decisions city council's can make)
  • Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and a portion of municipal police funding
  • The Highway Traffic Act, regulating all road transportation and maintenance standards
  • Some family law including adoption and martial property and Children's Aid Society issues
  • Management of prisons that hold minors and adults sentenced under two years
  • ODSP and Ontario Works 

 

 

 

Federal government/ Ottawa, Canada / Your MP

  1. London Fanshawe – Lindsay Mathyssen : [email protected]
  2. London North Centre– Peter Fragiskatos: [email protected]
  3. London West –Arielle Kayabaga : [email protected]

Responsibilities:

  • Criminal Code of Canada and prisons for adults serving more than two years
  • Banking, bankruptcy and creating money (printing bills and minting coins)
  • Postal services
  • Immigration and passport issues
  • Canadian Forces issues
  • Environmental regulations
  • Reservations and treaties and laws within Indigenous populations
  • International issues including trade, military, immigration etc.
  • Taxes including Goods and Services Tax (GST), some income tax and 5% of the 13% HST
  • Unemployment insurance, Canada Pension Plan
  • Some family law including marriage and divorce

 

Have any additional questions: Call City Hall @ 519-661-2489 and a representative will direct you to the right person to contact.