A city council meeting in Brampton, Ont. was abruptly cancelled after about half of its members didn’t show up.
The agenda for the meeting, which was scheduled for 11 a.m. on Tuesday, is nearly 900 pages in length.
The five missing councillors were all found to be associated with a motion to pre-emptively fill a seat left vacant after the provincial election—a motion that wasIn a statement, the remaining five councillors—Harkirat Singh, Michael Palleschi, Rowena Santos and Paul Vicente, as well as Mayor Patrick Brown—accuse those councillors of “taking vacations and refusing to attend council meetings.”
Without quorum, the meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday. It is not clear if the missing councillors will show up.
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