Article content Norfolk Mayor Kristal Chopp says Haldimand County has got a lot of things right since Haldimand-Norfolk Region was restructured into two standalone municipalities in 2001. “I’m not running a marketing ad for Haldimand County,” Chopp said during her annual state-of-the-county address this week. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Haldimand has made better choices: Chopp Back to video “But the fact is, Norfolk County has consistently chosen to avoid making the tough decisions, caved to political pressure, and denied the changing reality. “Those may sound like harsh words and I certainly wasn’t there, but what I do know is that if we had made some of those tough decisions like Haldimand did years earlier, then likely we would be in a very different position today.”