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Carol Mason, CAO, Metro Vancouver | BCBusinessThe most powerful bureaucrat in Metro Vancouver is also its most reserved. Just don’t underestimate her calm, collaborative management style.
No government agency is more important to the Lower Mainland’s quality of life than Metro Vancouver. So when Carol Mason took the reins of the unnervingly anonymous organization – the one that delegates millions in taxpayer dollars each year – it was more than an admin change. ?It was a changing of the guard.
Carol Mason, the most powerful bureaucrat in Metro Vancouver, took her chair at the Metro board table for the first time on September 21, 2012, and said nothing. Absolutely nothing. For the entire meeting. Mason suggests this was not a big deal. “I won’t say anything if I don’t have anything to say,” she explains. “And I didn’t have anything to say.”