Board of Health

The Ontario Ombudsman serves as Grand Erie Public Health's Board of Health Closed Meeting Investigator. If you wish to file a complaint regarding a Closed Meeting of the Board, you may contact the Ontario Ombudsman using the following information:

Complaints can be submitted online or via mail/phone:

Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario

483 Bay St., 10th Floor, South Tower

Toronto, ON, M5G 2C9

Toll-free (Ontario only): 1-800-263-1830

Outside Ontario: 416-586-3300

The Ontario Ombudsman promotes fairness, accountability and transparency in the public sector by investigating public complaints and issues within their jurisdiction.

Board of Health Members must indicate conflicts of interest pursuant to the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, RSO1990 Chapter M.50.

Each member of the Board of Health has the obligation to declare ethical, legal, financial or other conflicts of interest and to ensure that their activities and interests do not conflict with their obligations to the Board of Health of Grand Erie Public Health or its welfare. 

Where the interest of a member has not been disclosed as required by reason of the member’s absence from the meeting referred to therein, the member shall disclose the interest and otherwise comply with the requirements first set forth above at the first meeting of the Board attended by the member thereafter. 

Every declaration of interest and the general nature thereof made by a Board member shall, where the meeting is open to the public, be recorded in the minutes of the meeting by the Board Clerk. Where the meeting is not open to the public, every declaration of interest made by a Board member, but not the general nature of that interest shall be recorded in the minutes of the next meeting that is open to the public.