The LRT inquiry was in (2022).
By 2025, Sutcliffe’s public position is that one major failure doesn’t erase an entire career of other contributions.
Remember Jacque Pariseau saying the referendum was due to "money and la vote ethnique"? That was curtains for him!
While Suttcliffe was not claiming the LRT was handled well — he explicitly said he doesn’t endorse “everything” Watson did.
I do not accept that. Critics (including transit advocates quoted in the same CBC article) as well as myself call it tone-deaf and say it cheapens the honour, but Sutcliffe is leaning on tradition, personal knowledge of Watson, and the idea that Ottawa’s longest-serving mayor belongs in the Order he created.
Naturally I disagree. Hourigan said he had never seen such an egregious betrayal of public trust.
This is all very representative of the decision making at City Council. Sooner or later they have to be held accountable. This is not that complicated.
This is classic civic-politics pragmatism (excuses): you can criticize a predecessor’s biggest blunder while still awarding the ceremonial lifetime medal for everything else.
Whether that feels right or wrong is exactly the kind of debate that surfaces every time these honours are handed out — especially when infrastructure legacies like the LRT are still costing taxpayers and frustrating riders to this day.
It's been seven years!
Read it and weep!
By 2025, Sutcliffe’s public position is that one major failure doesn’t erase an entire career of other contributions.
Remember Jacque Pariseau saying the referendum was due to "money and la vote ethnique"? That was curtains for him!
While Suttcliffe was not claiming the LRT was handled well — he explicitly said he doesn’t endorse “everything” Watson did.
I do not accept that. Critics (including transit advocates quoted in the same CBC article) as well as myself call it tone-deaf and say it cheapens the honour, but Sutcliffe is leaning on tradition, personal knowledge of Watson, and the idea that Ottawa’s longest-serving mayor belongs in the Order he created.
Naturally I disagree. Hourigan said he had never seen such an egregious betrayal of public trust.
This is all very representative of the decision making at City Council. Sooner or later they have to be held accountable. This is not that complicated.
This is classic civic-politics pragmatism (excuses): you can criticize a predecessor’s biggest blunder while still awarding the ceremonial lifetime medal for everything else.
Whether that feels right or wrong is exactly the kind of debate that surfaces every time these honours are handed out — especially when infrastructure legacies like the LRT are still costing taxpayers and frustrating riders to this day.
It's been seven years!
Read it and weep!
Egregious violations of public trust': LRT rushed into service, commission finds | CBC News
It's a big club...and we are not in it. They are, all of them, patting each other on the back for the tremendous job they have been doing.
Do not elect pandering politicians!
This time around, vote differently, vote wisely, vote for Peter Karwacki for Rideau Rockcliffe.
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