Recent Proclamation Confirms – As of April 1, 2018 the Mandate of the Alberta Ombudsman Will Expand to Include Municipalities

On Thursday October 26, 2017 the final amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA), the act that governs how municipalities operate, were proclaimed into law. Efforts to modernize the act led to significant updates including changes to the Ombudsman Act, via Bill 21 – the Modernized Municipal Government Act. In a recent news release, Municipal…