There are 25 members....the 3 mayors....11 Mississauga council, 6 Brampton council members and 4 Caledon Council members.
So 13 is a majority.....Mississauga voting as a block has 12....so Caledon and Brampton would have to totally agree on something (not impossible but harder than Mississauga agreeing as a block) to get a tie and then the tie is broken by the Chair. The Chair has Caledon roots but there is a general feel (maybe biased by where I live) that unless the Mayor of Mississauga supports something then it will not get support around the table........not that she is a bad person but she is a very powerful/persuasive politician.
When it was announced that Metrolinx would only have one representative from Peel.....there were three general perceptions (that people communicated to me...there may have been others):
1. Given the relative population of Peel to the other regions....perhaps they should have more than one;
2. Given that Brampton's population is nearly as big as, for example, the Regional Municipality of Durham.....is it right that it is not directly represented
3. If there was only going to be one representative from Peel it would be the Mayor of Mississauga (no disprespect to Mayor Fennell but if you were in Caledon and it was a given that your Mayor was not getting onto that board...who would you pick from the other two.....so the 3rd largest municipality with a fairly largeish transit system was going to have to rely on the Mayor of a neighbouring municipality for representation......Mayor Hazel is, by no means, "anti-Brampton" but when it comes down to something that is good for Mississauga versus something else that is good for Brampton, what is she going to vote for?)