Fun local government pedantry: technically, he's right - per the local government act, directors are appointed by council. If your community has an election for director, you are actually voting in a non-binding "community opinion question" (see Saanich's report from 2022)

(I'm not actually sure which (if any) communities do not elect CRD directors) Anyways, that's it for pedantry

Only Victoria and Saanich have poll questions. Everybody but Langford only has a single rep, usually the mayor (although N. Saanich removed the mayor in a fight years ago & former Langford Mayor Stew Young afaik never was a CRD director)

As for directly elected regional reps, please point me to a region that does this that has better outcomes than we do

Interesting - The CRD has it wrong then www.crd.ca/government-a... - According to this, Each Electoral area elects one Director, and the others are chosen by the municipalities.