A regional councillor is looking to the past to overcome the current political turmoil.
On Friday, Premier Doug Ford announced he is planning to cancel the election of Regional Chairs in Niagara, Peel, York, and Muskoka, sending local candidates scrambling.
If the legislation passes - which is highly likely due to the Tory majority in the provincial house - Niagara's regional chair will be selected from a pool of elected councillors.
Over the weekend Pelham Regional Councillor Brian Baty suggested reverting to an older model of selecting a chair which would allow council to pick from outside their ranks.
Baty says this is about being fair to the five people who had put their names forward before Ford's big announcement.
"Perhaps months or weeks have been put in, the expenses have been done, to try and do that under the rules that seemed to be in place at the time."
Baty is calling for a special meeting to waive a motion restricting regional chair candidates to only elected councillors - he'd need a two-thirds majority to accomplish it.
Among the five people who had been running for the Regional Chair position Alan Caslin has now registered to run for a regional councillor position representing St. Catharines, Dave Augustyn re-filed his papers to run as a regional councillor for Pelham, Damian Goulbourne chose not to run in light of the decision, and neither John Ringo Beam nor Aaron Scott Michael Stack chose to re-file.