Regional Chair (Ontario)

A regional chair, referred to as the district chair in Muskoka District or the warden in Oxford County, is the head of council and chief executive officer of upper-tier municipalities (regional municipalities) in Ontario.^[1][2]

Names

• District chair
• warden

Occupation type

Politician

Activity sectors

Politics and government

Competencies

• Municipal and public administration
• law
• public speaking
• budgeting
• decision making
• communications

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Regional chair

Upper-tier municipalities in Ontario
Occupation
Names	District chair warden
Occupation type	Politician
Activity sectors	Politics and government
Description
Competencies	Municipal and public administration law public speaking budgeting decision making communications
Related jobs	Mayor reeve city councillor member of provincial parliament member of parliament

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Chairs elected by councillors in most regional municipalities. Since 1997 in Waterloo Region, 2000 in Halton Region and 2014 in Durham Region, the chair is directly elected along with the rest of the council.

The position is similar to the role of the mayor or reeve in lower- or single-tier municipalities. In the former Metropolitan Toronto, now the amalgamated City of Toronto, the regional chair was called Metro Chairman.