student residents, as well as clarifying that Quarters closing would not fix the problems residents were facing, as students would just go to other bars located in Westdale. Over 200 people attended the rally. After a sting operation the Ontario Provincial Police charged the Bar with liquor license violations alleging the Bar over-served its student patrons. Recently, the Court of Appeal for Ontario found the bar had violated the law by over-serving a patron who went on to run down a pedestrian with his truck. The case, McIntyre v. Grigg, made Canadian legal history when it awarded punitive damages against a drunk driver. The Westdale Village BIA, the Ainslie Wood / Westdale Community Association (AWWCA) and McMaster University formed the Campus Town Association in late 2004. The CTA was formed to address concerns facing both the community and the university. In 2021, Hamilton City Council passed a Student Rental Bylaw designed to eliminate student rentals that exist in private dwellings. The bylaw is being rolled out in stages across the wards around McMaster University and Mohawk College. Although called a pilot designed to evaluate the effect of the bylaw, it does not have any presence in the Gibson neighbourhood where 60% of the residents live in rental units. There are also no criteria of what data is to be collected. The bylaw was taken from the Waterloo rental bylaw which was designed to provoke small landlords, such as senior citizens, from renting and thus into selling. Waterloo plans called for increased density around the university to handle student accommodation. Hamilton appears to want a return to a single family neighbourhood and lacks any plans for the needed replacement housing. Politics Westdale is currently part of the federal electoral district of Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas and, since 2015, has been represented by Member of Parliament Filomena Tassi of the Liberal Party. Following a redistribution of provincial constituencies, Westdale shifted from being part of the Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale riding into the newly created constituency of Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas. In the 2018 Ontario Provincial Election, this seat was won by current New Democrat Member of Provincial Parliament Sandy Shaw. On the Municipal level, Westdale is part of Hamilton's Ward 1 and has been represented by Maureen Wilson as city councillor since 2018. At the public school board level Westdale is represented by Elizabeth Wong as Ward 1 trustee. On Hamilton's Catholic school board, Westdale is represented by Wards