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Jon Christensen

The Guelph Council Record

Every recorded vote since 2021 — the exact motion, how every member voted, and what was said before the hands went up.

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Ask in your own words. The answer is written from the actual motions and votes, and every decision it used is linked underneath.

Answers are written by a computer from the decisions listed above, and it can misread them. Nothing here replaces the record itself — open the linked decisions to see the exact motion, the full vote and the debate, and check anything you intend to rely on against the City’s own minutes.

14,743

Votes cast

1,279

Decisions

372

Meetings transcribed

39

Decided by one vote

Where do you want to start?

Search everythingMotions, staff reports and four years of debate. Try “bridge”, “housing”, or a councillor's name.A councillorHow each member has voted, what they've brought forward, and where they've stood apart from the room.The close ones39 decisions where one vote the other way would have changed the outcome.A meetingEvery council and committee meeting, with its decisions and full debate.

Decided by a single vote

Where council was most divided, and one member changing their mind would have changed the result.

The councillors

Councillor CatonWard 1 · 1,215 recorded votesCouncillor GibsonWard 1 · 990 recorded votesCouncillor GollerWard 2 · 1,199 recorded votesCouncillor KlassenWard 2 · 1,055 recorded votesCouncillor AlltWard 3 · 1,173 recorded votesCouncillor RichardsonWard 3 · 984 recorded votesCouncillor BillingsWard 4 · 1,161 recorded votesCouncillor BusuttilWard 4 · 1,181 recorded votesCouncillor CaronWard 5 · 1,118 recorded votesCouncillor DownerWard 5 · 1,235 recorded votesCouncillor ChewWard 6 · 1,082 recorded votesCouncillor HauserWard 6 · 333 recorded votesCouncillor O'RourkeWard 6 · 724 recorded votes

Most recent meetings

About this, and its limits

Everything here comes from the City of Guelph’s own published minutes and meeting recordings. Nothing is summarised, scored or ranked, and every page links back to the official source so you can check it yourself.

It was built by Jon Christensen’s campaign, without a budget, because the information is already public but almost impossible to use — and people have said clearly that they want it easier to find. It covers all thirteen members of council equally.

Two meetings could not be included because the City’s own recordings of them are silent or missing. The debate transcripts are produced automatically and contain mistakes, particularly with names; treat quotes as a guide and check the recording before relying on exact wording.