There is no shortage of money - for some things

Ward 13 · Civic Ledger

Ottawa Can Find $419 Million.
It Just Doesn't Find It For You.

Council spent three years finding the political will, financing structure, and staff time to push Lansdowne 2.0 to a final vote. The city's own auditor says fixing the housing waitlist costs about the same — and it isn't getting a fraction of the urgency.

PETER KARWACKI WARD 13 — RIDEAU-ROCKCLIFFE peterkarwacki.blogspot.com

On November 7, 2025, Ottawa city council closed the book on Lansdowne 2.0 — a $418.8 million redevelopment of TD Place with a new event centre, new north-side stands, and two residential towers on public parkland. It took three formal council votes since 2022, a full design and procurement cycle, an auditor general review, and years of committee hearings to get there. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe called it a "great opportunity for the city."

Meanwhile, roughly 10,000 households sit on Ottawa's centralized waiting list for social housing, some waiting the better part of a decade for a unit. The city's own affordable housing target — 5,000 new units by 2030 — is running at about a tenth of the pace needed to hit it. This isn't a story about whether Lansdowne 2.0 was worth building. It's a story about where a city's execution capacity goes when it decides something is a priority — and where it doesn't.

01 Two Price Tags, One City

Put the final numbers next to each other and the comparison is almost exact. Lansdowne 2.0's approved capital cost is within striking distance of what the city's auditor general says is needed to actually hit Ottawa's affordable housing target.

$418.8M Lansdowne 2.0 — approved capital cost

vs.

$565.1M City + senior-government funding needed to hit the 5,000-unit affordable housing target

Figure 1 — What it would take to close the gap

Sources: City of Ottawa Auditor General estimate ($188.4M city investment + $376.7M in required federal/provincial funding); Lansdowne 2.0 final approved cost, Heritage Ottawa / CBC News, Nov. 2025.

Lansdowne 2.0's own cost history is instructive here too. The project was approved at $419 million in November 2023. By mid-2024, the city's auditor general found construction costs were understated by more than $74 million, pushing the realistic figure to roughly $493 million. The number moved by nearly 18% after council had already voted — and council kept going anyway.

02 The Debt Service Comparison

Annual debt servicing on Lansdowne 2.0 was pegged at $16.4 million a year when council approved it in 2023. By the time staff issued their October 2025 pre-vote memo, that figure had climbed to $17.4 million a year — and outside analysis using the auditor general's higher construction estimate puts the real annual carrying cost closer to $20–22 million once financing on the full $493 million is included.

Figure 2 — One project's yearly debt payment vs. the city's entire housing-access budget line

Sources: City of Ottawa Infrastructure & Water Services memo, Oct. 20, 2025; City of Ottawa 2024 Budget (housing access & retention envelope, $33.5M); the613.substack.com debt-servicing analysis.

The city is servicing more debt on one recreation and condo project than it commits, in total, to keeping people housed.

03 What "Under-Resourced" Looks Like on the Ground

None of this is abstract for the roughly 22,500 households currently in Ottawa's community housing system, or the 10,000 more waiting to get in. Wait times for a subsidized unit routinely run five years or longer, and considerably longer for specific unit sizes.

Figure 3 — The affordable housing target vs. what's actually been delivered

Sources: City of Ottawa Auditor General; Ottawa Citizen, "The Affordable Housing Conundrum," March 2024.

Community housing units citywide~22,500

Non-profit housing organizations operating them51

Households on the centralized wait list~10,000

Typical wait for a subsidized unit5+ years

2021–2030 affordable housing target5,000 units

Units actually delivered, first 3 years466 units (9.3%)

Federal Housing Accelerator Fund awarded (2024–27)$176.3M

The city has real tools on the table — the Housing Accelerator Fund, Action Ottawa, the tax increment equivalent grant program. What it hasn't had is the sustained, multi-year council attention and financing creativity it found for Lansdowne. A non-profit housing consultant summed up the gap plainly to the Citizen: the shortfall "is not a lack of land or capacity. It's a lack of money."

04 The Real Argument

This isn't a claim that Lansdowne 2.0 directly took a dollar from a housing project — the financing structures are separate. The argument is about capacity and priority. Council found sixteen votes, three years of staff time, a dedicated auditor general review, and a workable (if strained) financing structure to build a smaller arena and two condo towers on public parkland. The housing file, with a harder-nosed price tag from the city's own auditor and a waiting list in the tens of thousands, gets none of that same sustained institutional push.

That's a structural accountability problem, not a partisan one. It's also exactly the kind of outcome-over-output test this campaign has applied to the O-Train extension, the OPS Board, and the city's homelessness numbers: it isn't enough for council to say a priority exists. The measure is whether the money, the votes, and the follow-through actually show up.

The question for Ward 13, and for the city: if Ottawa can structure $419 million and three years of sustained council will for Lansdowne, what would it take to get the same treatment for the 10,000 households waiting on a list that hasn't moved?

References

1. CBC News, "Council approves $419 million Lansdowne 2.0 plan" / Heritage Ottawa summary, Nov. 9–10, 2023 — approved cost, debt servicing estimate ($16.4M/yr), financing structure. heritageottawa.org
2. CBC News, "Lansdowne 2.0 could cost $74M more than city estimate, auditor general finds," June/July 2024 — OAG revised cost estimate of $493.4M. cbc.ca
3. City of Ottawa, Memo: Lansdowne 2.0 Redevelopment Project, Infrastructure and Water Services, Oct. 20, 2025 — updated debt servicing figure ($17.4M/yr). ottawa.ca
4. CBC News, "Here's where your councillor stands heading into the final Lansdowne 2.0 vote," Nov. 7, 2025 — final council vote. cbc.ca
5. Wikipedia, "2026 Ottawa municipal election" — project scope and Ottawa Charge departure context. en.wikipedia.org
6. the613.substack.com, "Lansdowne Would be a 1% Property Tax Increase for Everyone in Ottawa" and "Lansdowne 2.0 Gets Up to $22 Million in Ottawa's 2025 Budget" — independent debt-servicing and annual-budget analysis. the613.substack.com
7. City of Ottawa, "Facts at a glance — Subsidized housing" — unit counts, wait list size, wait times, number of housing providers. ottawa.ca
8. Ottawa Citizen (via PressReader), "The Affordable Housing Conundrum," March 30, 2024 — 5,000-unit target, 466 units delivered, Auditor General's $188.4M/$376.7M funding-gap estimate. pressreader.com
9. City of Ottawa, "Housing Accelerator Fund — Building affordable and supportive housing" — $176.3M federal HAF award, 2024–2027 disbursement schedule. ottawa.ca

Peter Karwacki for Ward 13 · Rideau-Rockcliffe · October 2026

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Affordable Housing...stop the insanity

Ward 13 · Accountability Ledger

The Hotel Ledger: What $29 Million a Year Buys — and Doesn't

Ottawa's homelessness budget keeps flowing into motel rooms. A look at why the expense/asset line, not the non-profit/for-profit label, is the number that actually explains why housing stays unaffordable in Rideau-Rockcliffe and across the city.

PETER KARWACKI WARD 13 CANDIDATE JULY 2026

A city can spend money two ways: as an expense that disappears, or as an investment that remains an asset. Ottawa's homelessness spending is a case study in the difference — and it explains, better than any abstract debate about margins, why the delivery model behind a housing unit matters as much as the unit itself.

01 The expense

In 2025, the City of Ottawa spent roughly $29.3 million housing homeless families in hotels and motels. That's not a one-time cost — it recurs every year the underlying shortage persists. Families placed this way stayed in shelter an average of 11 months, and about three in four were in overflow hotel and motel rooms rather than a dedicated shelter facility.

600+families in Ottawa's shelter system last year

11 moaverage family stay in shelter

76%of families in hotel/motel overflow, not dedicated shelter

16,000+households on the social housing waitlist, end of 2025

02 The asset

Compare that recurring bill to a single capital decision the City made this year: buying a vacant downtown hotel at 377 O'Connor St. for $45 million — with the federal government covering most of the cost — to convert into permanent transitional housing. It is, city staff said plainly, a better use of a building than parking families in motel rooms indefinitely.

Put those two numbers side by side and the ledger logic writes itself: at roughly $29 million a year, the City's motel spending would buy the equivalent of an O'Connor-St-sized asset every 18 months — except it buys nothing that lasts. One is an expense line. The other is a capital line. Only one of them still exists in five years.

Fig. 1 — Annual expense vs. one-time capital asset

2025 hotel/motel placements (recurring, annual)$29.3M / yr

377 O'Connor St. purchase (one-time, permanent asset)$45.0M once

Years of hotel spend to equal one asset purchase≈ 1.5 yrs

03 Why the delivery model is the actual variable

This is where the non-profit vs. for-profit distinction earns its place, rather than being a slogan. A for-profit developer's project has to clear a required return before it gets built at all — that return comes out of rent, permanently. A non-profit or co-op provider's project only has to cover its debt service, operating costs, and reserve fund. Break-even, not return-on-equity. That's the entire reason rent-geared-to-income housing — capped at 30% of a household's income — exists almost exclusively in the non-profit, co-op, and public sector in this city: no for-profit landlord will run a unit at a permanent loss relative to market rent.

The motel bill isn't a failure of the private market to be generous. It's what happens when a city relies on emergency, market-rate purchasing instead of financing the non-profit and public stock that doesn't need a margin to operate.

04 The supply gap behind the bill

The deeper problem is that Ottawa isn't building permanent stock fast enough to stop needing motels in the first place. The city's target was 5,000 new affordable units between 2021 and 2030. In the first three years, 466 were completed. The city's own auditor general estimated it would take roughly $188.4 million in additional city investment and another $376.7 million in federal and provincial funding to close that gap — money that competes, year over year, with the same budget paying the hotel bill.

Fig. 2 — 2021–2030 affordable housing target vs. units delivered so far

05 What this means for Ward 13

Rideau-Rockcliffe residents who list housing affordability as a top concern are, in effect, pointing at this same ledger. The fix isn't a slogan about "non-profits vs. developers" — it's structural: capital committed early enough, and predictably enough, that non-profit and co-op providers can secure their financing before a family spends another eleven months in a hotel room the city is paying for by the night. That's an accountability question, not just a compassion question — and it belongs in how this ward's councillor scrutinizes the housing capital budget every single year.

References

1. City of Ottawa. "New strategy helps families experiencing homelessness move more quickly into stable housing." Ottawa.ca newsroom, 2026. ottawa.ca
2. CBC News. "This single mom and her family have been living in Ottawa hotels for over a year." May 2026. cbc.ca
3. CBC News. "City forges new plan to house Ottawa's homeless families." April 22, 2026. cbc.ca
4. CBC News. "City poised to buy vacant downtown hotel to house families." Feb–March 2026. cbc.ca
5. City of Ottawa. "Facts at a glance — Subsidized housing." ottawa.ca
6. Ottawa Citizen (Pressreader). "The Affordable Housing Conundrum." March 30, 2024. pressreader.com
7. City of Ottawa. "Programs and incentives — Building affordable and supportive housing." ottawa.ca

Peter Karwacki for Ward 13 (Rideau-Rockcliffe) · peterkarwacki.blogspot.com

Rideau-Rockcliffe Clearance is not tight and severity is up

click on charts

Public data is something worth reading carefully and connecting it to actual governance during election cycles.

It becomes harder to dismiss and more useful for residents who actually live with the numbers. Robbery volume fell 39% while clearance halved - this is an illustration of the capacity problem.

Ward 13 · Rideau-Rockcliffe — Field Notes Read the fine print

The Crime Stats Nobody Reads
(And What They're Actually Hiding)

Ottawa Police quietly drops a "Crime Trends" dashboard for every ward each spring. It's built for city hall, not for you. Here's the version with the headlines nobody wrote.

Every spring, Ottawa Police publishes a Crime Trends report for each ward — rows of rates and clearance percentages that read like a tax form. Which is exactly why nobody looks closely enough to notice what it actually says about Rideau-Rockcliffe. So I did.

The number everyone will quote Headline

Crime in Rideau-Rockcliffe rose 9.0% in 2025. That's the number that'll show up in a press release or a doorstep conversation. It's also the least interesting number in the report.

The number nobody will quote Buried

42.4% → 20.0% Robbery clearance rate, cut in half in a single year.

Not "robbery went up" — it actually fell 39%, down to 20 cases. What collapsed is our ability to solve the ones that still happen. Same story with assault: clearance down from 54.0% to 48.7%. Violent crime overall dropped 6.4% in raw terms — genuinely good news — while our capacity to clear the violent crimes that remain got measurably worse.

That's not a "more crime" story. That's a capacity story. And capacity is a council-level, budget-level, oversight-level question — exactly the kind of question Rideau-Rockcliffe hasn't been asking loudly enough.

Clearance rate — 2024 vs 2025

So where's the 9% actually coming from? Trace it

Not from violence. It's coming from two places, and neither is what you'd guess from the headline.

+27.6% 907 vs 707 cases
Clearance: just 9.9%

+12.4% 317 vs 282 cases
Clearance: just 5.0%

+54.7% 99 vs 64 cases
Failure to Comply w/ Order

Theft under $5,000 is the single largest driver of the entire increase — bike thefts, package thefts, scams — and it's the crime category solved least often. Fraud is close behind, solved barely one time in twenty. Meanwhile "Other Criminal Code" offences are up 34.1%, driven almost entirely by Failure to Comply with a Court Order and Breach of Probation — not new crimes on our streets, but the justice system's own machinery grinding on people already inside it.

The chart that should worry you more than the headline 5-year view

Ottawa Police also publish a five-year Crime Severity Index for the ward. It sat basically flat from 2021 to 2023, ticked up gently into 2024 — and then jumped 11% in a single year to 82.68. Severity isn't volume; it's a measure of how serious the offences are getting. A line that goes from flat to a hockey stick in its final year belongs on a council agenda, not buried on page two of a PDF.

Crime Severity Index, 2021 – 2025

Where this connects to how the ward is governed Accountability

We already know the Ottawa Police Services Board's own Chief admitted its database-misuse auditing isn't "robust." We already know the Board's safe-workplace budget was cut from $8.2M to $5.4M since 2022. We already know Rawlson King sat on that Board and resigned in 2022 vouching for its competence — before the Auditor General found it had been reporting inaccurately.

None of that is a coincidence sitting next to a ward where violent-crime clearance is falling and property-crime clearance is in single digits.

Oversight isn't an abstract governance word. It's the difference between a robbery getting solved four times out of ten versus two times out of ten. That's not a statistic — that's someone's stolen car, someone's break-in, sitting open.

What actually needs to happen The ask

Not more press releases about "crime being up." A ward councillor who treats a 9.9% property-crime clearance rate as an actual problem to solve — pushing for resourcing tied to outcomes, not just calls answered. Take a Board seat the incumbent no longer holds...because he quit.

The data's public. It's just never been read out loud. So, how will Rideau-Rockcliffe’s clearance rates be tracked and improved in 2026–27? If you want improvements... I am your man!

Source: Ottawa Police Service, Ward – Rideau-Rockcliffe Crime Trends report, 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 (data as of April 30, 2026).

References / Sources

• Ottawa Police Service – Crime Trends by City Ward (interactive dashboard; primary source for 2024–2025 Ward 13 figures, clearance rates, and Crime Severity Index)
• Ottawa Police Community Safety Data Portal
• CTV News Ottawa – Crime rates by ward in 2025 (confirms ~9% rise in Rideau-Rockcliffe rate)
• Ottawa Citizen – Ottawa crime rates increase in 2025
• CBC News – Ottawa police clearance rate dropping
• CBC News – Auditor General audit on OPS project budgets and reporting (May 2026)
• CBC News – Police board meeting on database misuse auditing and workplace safety (June 2026; Chief’s “not robust” comment)
• Ottawa Citizen – Rawlson King resignation from Police Services Board (2022)
• Ottawa Police – Sample Ward 13 Crime Trends PDF (methodology reference; earlier years)

Pints and a lot more in Manor Park

 

Dial 988

The volunteer for the Canadian Mental Health Association was very interested to learn I had worked with his group as Financial Director for 9 years in Kirkland Lake and that I had been a director on the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital board.

Emergency Contact Numbers

Groovey Shades from Anatomy Physio

I spoke briefly to the organizer, Lana.

"I cannot stay", I said

 "I am here, I spoke to people, I bought stuff"

She seemed happy about that.

On my way home I handed out my cards outside Smashed Buger.

One couple asked...can you speak french.

Bien sûr!

Another asked what I would do differently... he really liked my proposal for a traffic circle at Beechwood and Vanier...people are starting to listen to me Rawlson, win or lose...I hope you will too.

I am a different guy, I'd do things differently, I'd make different decisions.

I AM A Candidate for Rideau-Rockcliffe*

"something needs to be done".

This time around, inform yourselves, vote differently, vote wisely. Vote for Peter Karwacki for Rideau Rockcliffe.

Campaign Web Page

https://peterkarwacki.blogspot.com/p/peter-karwacki-for-rideau-rockcliffe.html?m=1#

AI Audits Are Long Overdue

Ottawa Police Board

 

Stubbs told the board that Ottawa police make hundreds of database searches every day and it's tough to keep track of them, and while there is some auditing in place, "it's not robust." To drive home how serious the abuse of police databases is, the force is about to send an email to all of its employees notifying them of increased penalties, Ferguson said.  CbC report

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-police-workplace-safety-misconduct-board-meeting-9.7244820

 

The Audit Ottawa Police Could Already Have

At Monday's police board meeting — the first held in person in more than three years — Chief Eric Stubbs told the board something worth sitting with. Officers run hundreds of database queries a day, he said, and while some auditing exists, it "isn't robust."

That admission came in direct response to a board inquiry into database misuse, prompted by reports that officers had been searching internal systems to track women they were interested in — pulling license plates outside gyms and coffee shops, then running them through police systems to get names and addresses. Stubbs has to give the board a full answer in July: how misuse gets detected, whether audits are internal or independent, and how much time typically passes between an improper search and anyone noticing.

That last question is the one that should worry people most. Because the honest answer, right now, appears to be: not until someone else complains.

This isn't a hard technical problem

"Not robust" makes database auditing sound like some frontier challenge OPS hasn't caught up to yet. It isn't. Anomaly-detection systems that flag unusual access to sensitive records are mature, off-the-shelf technology. Hospitals have used versions of this for years to catch staff snooping in patient charts they have no clinical reason to view — it's a standard feature of health-records compliance. The pattern-matching involved is not exotic: a query with no linked case file, repeated searches on the same name over time, access clustered around a particular time and place — these are the kinds of signals a modern audit system flags automatically, in real time, rather than waiting for an unrelated complaint to surface it months or years later.

None of this requires OPS to invent anything. It requires deciding that reviewing database access is worth building properly.

Which brings us to the budget

The Ottawa Police Service's safe workplace program — the unit meant to be dealing with exactly this kind of misconduct — had its budget cut from $8.2 million in 2022 to $5.4 million now. That's not a rounding error; it's a third of the funding, gone, in the years leading up to a second wave of the same category of scandal.

You can't credibly tell a board "our auditing isn't robust" while the unit responsible for workplace accountability has been shrinking. Robust auditing costs money and staff time. If the board is serious about the questions it's asking in July, the answer needs to include what it would actually cost to fix — and whether OPS has been asking for that money, or quietly deprioritizing it.

What real accountability looks like from here

The board has apparently ordered quarterly updates going forward, which is a start. But quarterly updates are only accountability if they come with numbers: how many flagged accesses, how many investigated, how long detection is taking, and whether the safe workplace program's budget is actually being restored to do this work properly.

Ottawa doesn't have a technology gap. It has a prioritization gap, and prioritization is a budget decision the board can actually act on — not a technical mystery Stubbs needs another decade to solve.

Watch the debate between King and I on this matter

The Audit Gap: Why "Not Robust" Shouldn't Be Good Enough for OPS

Database-misuse auditing is a solved problem elsewhere. In Ottawa, it's an admission of failure, and a funding choice.

Peter Karwacki — Ward 13 (Rideau-Rockcliffe) accountability blog

When Ottawa Police Services leadership was pressed on how well the force audits its own members' access to law enforcement databases, the answer that came back — attributed to Stubbs — was that the auditing process is "not robust." Said plainly, in public, about the systems meant to catch officers misusing confidential databases for personal reasons.

I want to be direct about why that answer doesn't sit well with me. I'm a trained data analyst. Anomaly detection on access logs — flagging unusual query patterns, off-hours lookups, searches on names with no case connection — is not experimental technology. It is a mature, largely off-the-shelf capability that police services elsewhere have implemented specifically because self-reported honesty isn't an oversight system. When an organization with a nine-figure budget tells the public its auditing isn't robust, that's not a technology gap. It's a resourcing and priority choice.

The Ottawa Police Services Board's safe workplace program was funded at $8.2 million when committed in 2022. Current funding sits at $5.4 million. That's the direction spending has moved while the Board was telling the public it took internal accountability seriously.

The resignation that vouched for competence

This is where Rawlson King's record on the Board matters. King sat on the Ottawa Police Services Board and resigned in 2022 — issuing a statement at the time vouching for the Board's competence on his way out the door. Since then: the independent workplace investigations office was quietly closed, the Auditor General found inaccurate reporting to the Board, and this spring brought a documented misconduct crisis.

If I were on that board, I would not have quit. Oversight isn't a role you vouch for and then leave — it's a role you stay in and use.

This fits a pattern I've written about before with King: strong public statements calling for stronger oversight, paired with an actual record of stepping back from the oversight bodies themselves. He never sat on the Transit Commission or Light Rail Subcommittee despite repeated public calls for stronger LRT oversight. He left the Police Services Board with a vote of confidence, shortly before the Board's own record showed that confidence wasn't warranted.

What accountability actually requires

None of this is about painting a technical problem as unsolvable, or an oversight failure as unfixable. It's the opposite. The tools exist. The methodology exists. What's been missing is the funding commitment and the sustained presence of people willing to sit on these bodies and push, rather than issue a statement and step away.

Ward 13 residents deserve representation that treats institutional oversight as ongoing work, not a credential to claim on the way out. That's the standard I'm running on.

I AM A Candidate for Rideau-Rockcliffe*

"something needs to be done".

This time around, inform yourselves, vote differently, vote wisely. Vote for Peter Karwacki for Rideau Rockcliffe.

Campaign Web Page

https://peterkarwacki.blogspot.com/p/peter-karwacki-for-rideau-rockcliffe.html?m=1#

Traffic Circles are in our future

This one would cantelever over the water...create a stunning lookout and overlooks on both sides of the bridge. It would include pedestrian underpasses.

There is a typical consultation underway in which you are presented with false alternatives.

Everyone  knows about the inpossible bumper to bumper traffic at Vanier Parkway and Beechwood

 Its also bad at Beechwood and St.Laurent.

My solution. Traffic circles

Candidate for Rideau-Rockcliffe*

something needs to be done".

This time around, inform yourselves, vote differently, vote wisely. Vote for Peter Karwacki for Rideau Rockcliffe.

Campaign Web Page

https://peterkarwacki.blogspot.com/p/peter-karwacki-for-rideau-rockcliffe.html?m=1#

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Historical Votes in Rideau-Rockcliffe

W13

City of Ottawa — Municipal Council

Rideau–Rockcliffe Ward

Election record, 2000 – 2022 · known as Rideau Ward prior to 2006

2000Rideau Ward

Candidate	Votes	%
Jacques Legendre	7,269	64.07
Richard Cannings	4,077	35.93

2003Rideau Ward

Candidate	Votes	%
Jacques Legendre	6,070	79.17
James Parker	934	12.18
Michel Binda	663	8.65

2006Rideau–Rockcliffe Ward

Candidate	Votes	%
Jacques Legendre	7,450	62.35
Maurice Lamirande	1,953	16.34
James Parker	1,248	10.44
Jules Bouvier	1,077	9.01
Muinis Ramadan	221	1.85

2010Rideau–Rockcliffe Ward

Candidate	Votes	%
Peter D. Clark	2,722	25.84
Maurice Lamirande	1,835	17.42
Sheila Perry	1,709	16.22
Bruce Poulin	1,695	16.09
Richard Cannings	1,333	12.65
Corry Burke	438	4.16
Rawlson King	380	3.61
Pierre Maheu	224	2.13
Harley Collison	129	1.22
James Parker	69	0.66

2014Rideau–Rockcliffe Ward

Candidate	Votes	%
Tobi Nussbaum	4,846	47.19
Peter D. Clark (incumbent)	1,871	18.22
Sheila Perry	1,423	13.86
Penny Thompson	994	9.68
Jevone Nicholas	846	8.24
Cam Holmstrom	290	2.82

2018Rideau–Rockcliffe Ward

Candidate	Votes	%
Tobi Nussbaum	7,334	80.52
Peter Heyck	1,774	19.48

2019Rideau–Rockcliffe Ward By-election

Triggered by Nussbaum's resignation to lead the National Capital Commission. Seventeen candidates on the ballot.

Candidate	Votes	%
Rawlson King	1,529	18.36
Jamie Kwong	1,406	16.88
Penny Thompson	851	10.22
Marc Dorgeville	794	9.53
Sheila Perry	742	8.91
Maurice Lamirande	708	8.50
Johan Hamels	665	7.98
Kasia Adamiec	507	6.09
Chris Penton	441	5.29
Oriana Ngabirano	247	2.97
Patrick Mayangi	135	1.62
Miklos Horvath	89	1.07
Peter Heyck	58	0.70
Peter Jan Karwacki	48	0.58
Jerry Kovacs	46	0.55
Idris Ben-Tahir	35	0.42
Bruce A. Faulkner	29	0.35

2022Rideau–Rockcliffe Ward

Candidate	Votes	%
Rawlson King	8,481	80.14
Clayton Fitzsimmons	859	8.12
Peter Jan Karwacki	716	6.77
Peter Zanette	527	4.98

● denotes winning candidate

Compiled from City of Ottawa election results & contemporaneous reporting

Rideau-Rockcliffe (Ward 13) Voter Turnout

Municipal election turnout, last ~25 years — Ottawa, Ontario

Ward-level turnout (confirmed figures)

Election	Type	Turnout	Detail
2022	General election	39.74%	11,216 of 28,220 eligible voters — up 2.59 pts from 2018
2019	By-election	~30.6–31%	17 candidates on the ballot; lower turnout typical of by-elections
2018	General election	37.15%	Tobi Nussbaum re-elected with 80% of the vote

Citywide turnout (Ottawa-wide) — ward-specific figures not confirmed

Election	Citywide Turnout	Note
2014	39.92%	—
2010	~44%	Down ~10 pts from 2006
2006	~54%	Implied from the 2010 "-10pp" figure
2003	Not found	Not confirmed in available sources
2000	Not found	Not confirmed in available sources

Caveat: Ward-level (rather than citywide) turnout figures for 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2010 weren't readily available in the sources searched. Elections Ottawa's archived poll-by-poll PDF results may have this detail for those years if it's needed.

Sources: Elections Ottawa, Wikipedia (2018 & 2022 Ottawa municipal election pages), CBC News, CTV News Ottawa, AMO municipal election statistics.

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