Peel Regional Council is the governing body of the Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada. It currently consists of 22 members: the mayors of Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon, nine additional councillors from Mississauga, five additional councillors from Brampton, four additional councillors from Caledon, and the regional chair, who is appointed by council members. Since December 1991, the regional chair has been Emil Kolb.

In 2005, the provincial government passed legislation to assign two more councillors to Mississauga, and one additional councillor to Brampton, starting with the November 2006 election. That will raise the size of council to 25.

Peel Council members openly in favour of maintaining and preserving Peel Regional authority over their local municipality are; Susan Fennel, Paul Palleschi, Gael Miles, John Sprovieri, Marolyn Morrison, Elaine Moore, Nancy Stewart, Annette Groves, David Lyons, Richard Paterak and Susan Dimarco.

The Unique Regional Government Structure in Ontario

Ontario is unique among the provinces of Canada with its structure of Nine Regional Governments, namely Peel, Niagara, Waterloo, Oxford, Muskoka, Durham, York, Halton and Metro Toronto.

The unique structures created by the government of Wm. (Bill) Davis in the mid 1970's using his majority government over the objections of the local Villages, Communities, Towns and Cities affected. In the thirty years since creation they have been under a constant struggle for power and local control with the local level governments about which of them will become the Single Tier Municipality when the local development reaches maturity.

In the case of Metro Toronto the struggle was won by Metro Region who succeeded in annexing the local Cities of Toronto a few years ago. A similar struggle is currently underway in Peel Region most clearly, but similar struggles have been won and lost in other places as the local governments struggle to break free from their Region to become Single Tier Cities and preserve democratic government structures over less democratic ones.

In Canada, because our constitution only names two distinct government i.e.; The Federal and The Provincial; these Cities and Towns do not have any proper say in the matter of their Regions since both are created by Acts of Provincial Parliament and neither are constitutional governments.

Whereas Cities and Towns are democratically controlled government organization with elected representatives and elected mayors and leaders, the Regions are not. Regions have no elected leader, no full time elected representatives on their Council with offices or personal regional management staff, and there is no structured system for obtaining a majority vote in any proportionate representation of its citizens. Not even a political party system exists that can attract accountability by the votes of its citizens.