Category: City budget
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Before the Budget: A Conversation About Ottawa’s Future
Councillor Troster and I are hosting an early consultation tonight on the 2026 City budget. I’ve been thinking more urgently as we prepare this last budget of this term of Council about where this city is headed, and how far we’ve drifted from what we used to be. Kitchissippi residents have allowed me to represent…
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Fairness for Ottawa
Last week, Mayor Sutcliffe set forth in unequivocal terms the lack of fairness with which our provincial and federal governments have been treating Ottawa. His focus was on two issues: the preferential treatment the federal government gives itself in determining how much it wants to pay us in taxes, and the inequitable treatment between the…