Gotta Go, in life and in death.
I recently travelled to the world's most populus city, Tokyo, Japan. There are more public washrooms on a single block near the Shibuya crossing than there are in all of Ottawa.
And further, if you did find a public washroom in Ottawa, chances are good it would be locked or have no hot water, no heat, dirty, graffittied, no light - worse than an outhouse.
Why, in Ottawa we accept this as public infrastructure is a mystery to me.
Let me make this plain. The way a city and community treats its citizens is the true mark of its character.
Its not about Ottawa Senators, Landsdowne or the market, its not about diversity or bilingualism.
The provision of basic public sanitation is the most fundamental and basic of all civic services.
Are there worries of the expense to clean and maintain them? Folks you are going to pay in so many other ways if you do not provide basic rest room service.
Some cities charge a small fee, others in Japan provide clean, graffitti free wahrooms, literally in the middle of nowhere, these have warm, hot and cold water with electronically controlled bidets.
What are we, mouth breathers?
Anyone that choses to ignore this problem in Ottawa deserves the stockade, forget about re election.
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