Gary Carr Current Regional Chair decides to run for a Burlington City Council seat.

By Gazette Staff

May 5^th, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

Current Regional Chair decides to run for a Burlington City Council seat.

Gary Carr, the current Chair of the Halton Regional government, filed papers yesterday to run as a candidate for Ward 2 seat in Burlington.

Some might wonder why Gary would leave a higher level of government to serve in a lower level.

The reason is that the job he currently has is expected to disappear when the provincial government names new Directors to lead the Regional governments across the province.

There are different views on Carr serving at the municipal level.  Should he win the Ward 2 seat he would bring a tremendous deapth of experience to the job.

Brad Harness

Brad Harness, publisher of the Burlington Independent was expected to file his nomination papers.   No word yet on what he will do

Sean Campbell, Founder of Burlington Helping Burlington, was talking about running for the seat as well.

We will look to them for comment.