Nova Scotia residents can no longer file complaints about their municipal elected officials, a move one advocate calls “dangerously undemocratic.”
Last Tuesday, the province made changes to the municipal code of conduct it said stemmed from feedback from municipalities.
Those changes included a clause stating that a complaint “may only be made by a council member” in the municipality where the subject of the complaint is also a council member.
Pam Mood, president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities and mayor of the Town of Yarmouth, said a few municipalities have reported a flood of complaints since the
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