Nearly half the GTA is non-white. Here are their mayors:

On Friday, the bulk of the GTA’s mayors and regional chairs got together to hack out a resolution on funding for ice storm recovery. Afterward, they held a joint press conference, offering a rare opportunity to view them lined up together:

Between 40 and 50 per cent of Greater Toronto Area residents identify themselves as visible minorities. (The gutting of the census means that recent, reliable data is difficult to come by.) Slightly more than half are women.

Here are the people who lead them, in alphabetical order:

Chair Roger M. Anderson, Durham Region

Mayor Dave Barrow, Town of Richmond Hill

Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua, City of Vaughan

Mayor Rick Bonnette, Town of Halton Hills

Mayor Rob Burton, Town of Oakville

Chair Gary Carr, Halton Region

Mayor W. Terry Clayton, Township of Brock

Mayor Geoffrey Dawe, Town of Aurora

Mayor Wayne Emmerson, Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville

Mayor Susan Fennell, City of Brampton

Chair Bill Fisch, York Region

Mayor Rob Ford, City of Toronto

Mayor Adrian Foster, Municipality of Clarington

Mayor Rick Goldring, City of Burlington

Mayor Robert Grossi, Town of Georgina

Mayor Virginia Hackson, Town of East Gwillimbury

Mayor John G. Henry, City of Oshawa

Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, City of Toronto

Chair Emil Kolb, Peel Region

Mayor Gordon Krantz, Town of Milton

Mayor Hazel McCallion, City of Mississauga

Mayor Chuck Mercier, Township of Scugog

Mayor Marolyn Morrison, Town of Caledon

Mayor Gerri Lynn O’Connor, Township of Uxbridge

Mayor Steve Parish, Town of Ajax

Mayor Steve Pellegrini, Township of King

Mayor Pat Perkins, Town of Whitby

Mayor David Ryan, City of Pickering

Mayor Frank Scarpitti, City of Markham

Mayor Tony Van Bynen, Town of Newmarket

Some recent Twitter-based crowdsourcing by journalist and permanent-resident-voting activist Desmond Cole concluded that only two Canadian cities of significant size have people of colour at the helm: Calgary (whose mayor, Naheed Nenshi, is of South Asian descent) and Windsor (whose mayor, Eddie Francis, is of Lebanese descent). Francis will not be running for re-election.