Corruption: the first four mayoral candidates debates were organized by climate activists. Not surprisingly, they made the debates about "climate justice" and eliminated from the 4th and most important climate debate, Mike Maguire, the candidate who most seriously opposed the City’s energy plans.
Also eliminated, even though he accepted, in writing, a written commitment from the organizers that he would participate in the 4th debate, was candidate Ade Olumide, who has registered a formal complaint. But then Olumide had criticized candidate and current councillor Catherine McKenney, a favourite of climate activists, on several issues. He especially condemned McKenney’s wild plan to boost Ottawa’s cycling budget (for bike paths) by 1,250% to $250 million while, as Olumide put it in his
October 5 press release, “people [are] dying due to the waitlist to enter a drug treatment program and the lack of supportive housing.”
- Monday, October 24, 2022