Seven elected officials are calling for a governance review and an independent audit of the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant.
For the past few months, Global News has reported on the removal of Metro Vancouver 's Board Chair, concerns about executive pay and runaway project costs. Now calls are mounting for a complete review of the organization. Catherine Urquhart reports. Metro Vancouver is governed by a board of directors made up of elected officials from across the region.
“We still don’t have answers and this audit and governance review will at least be a start getting towards that.”Dobrovolny said the question of a governance review was out of his hands. “Yeah, that’s for the province to decide and the board to discuss. My responsibility is to make it work, whichever model we have,” he said.Global News asked the province if it would do a governance review of Metro Vancouver.
A spokesperson did not directly respond to the question, saying the province would be supportive if Metro Vancouver wanted to do a review.Trudeau affirms ‘full confidence’ in Freeland amid reports of tension
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