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Not the full picture. Built from public records, which leave things out.Read by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date. Check the sources, and tell us if you spot a mistake. What this site can't tell you
Read by hand. We read Emo's own documents for this site in October 2026; the Sources page lists which ones. The comparisons with other places still come from the Province's yearly reports.

Council

Who decides, and how you can hold them to account

Emo is run by an elected council of 5 people. They set the budget, approve big purchases and hire the senior staff who run the town day to day.

Current council

Names and official email addresses from the town's council page. None of the members lists a public social media account there.

What council is paid

Every year the town has to publish what each council member was paid, and what was spent on their benefits and expenses. These are the totals from those statements, 2025 to 2025.

In 2025, the whole council cost $35,387 in pay, benefits and expenses, about $59 per home. The mayor's pay went up 0% from 2025 to 2025; prices went up 0% over the same years.
Pay, and benefits and expenses, for each council member by year
Member2025
Harold McQuaker
Mayor		$9,000+ $50
Harrold Boven
Councillor		$6,000+ $50
Lisa Teeple
Councillor		$6,000+ $1,078
Phil Whatley
Councillor		$6,000+ $604
Gerald Wieringa
Councillor		$6,000+ $604

Top number: pay. Second number: benefits and expenses together, such as health cover, mileage, conferences and training. Exactly what goes in it differs a little from town to town; the note below says what this town’s statement includes. Some members take the town’s health plan and some do not, so a higher second number is not a problem by itself. The statements give only totals; the receipts behind them can be requested from the clerk.

Each year links to the town's statement. From the Township's 2025 statement (By-law 2025-24, passed December 10, 2025), read from a scanned page. "pay" is the honorarium column; "other" is the statement's total less the honorarium (mileage, meals, accommodation, conference and training, and memberships). The column totals add to the printed $35,386.61. Only 2025 is shown. We did not read the 2024 statement.

How open is Emo?

What a resident can find online without asking, as of October 10, 2026.

  • No
    Budgets posted online

    The Administration & Finance page lists audited financial statements for 2019 to 2025, Financial Information Returns for 2019 to 2025 and council pay statements for 2022 to 2025. We found no budget, for any year, on that page when we read it on October 10, 2026. Source

  • Partly
    Audited financial statements

    Statements for 2019 to 2025 are posted, all as scanned images. The opinion on each of 2023, 2024 and 2025 is qualified (see the first question). The 2023 statements are signed November 12, 2025, the 2024 ones February 10, 2026 and the 2025 ones May 27, 2026. Source

  • Yes
    Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

    The statement is posted for 2022 to 2025, as a by-law with a schedule. The 2025 statement is By-law 2025-24, passed December 10, 2025. Source

  • Partly
    Meeting agendas and minutes

    Agendas and minutes are posted as PDFs on one page. When we read it in October 2026 the listing ran to June 2025, with one 2026 upload. We did not read any minutes. Source

  • Unknown
    Integrity Commissioner and closed meeting reports

    We did not find any on the pages we read. Source