Caldwell, Leamington Partnership Creating Jobs

Under a new partnership, members of the Caldwell First Nation will get hands-on training from the Municipality of Leamington on how to run a municipality.

Mayor John Paterson says the partnership grew out of a previous agreement to provide training to run Towle Harbour. The First Nation has hired it’s equivalent of a chief administrative officer and eventually plans to hire staff to provide other municipal services to its members.

“We’ll be hooking them up with our finance department, the engineering department — basically, everything to run their own municipality because the Caldwells are a government unto themselves.” Read More