On Parliament Hill, a Liberal government that claims to be terribly concerned about misinformation — and wants to regulate the internet to make it better — is either lying to fend off criticism of its latest gun-control push, or it has no idea what it’s doing. Even as it insists it is not going after hunting rifles and shotguns, it is clearly going after hunting rifles and shotguns.
Down the road at Ottawa City Hall, meanwhile, Tuesday saw the sudden resignation of long-time city manager Steve Kanellakos. He followed out the door three-term mayor Jim Watson, who did not run for re-election, and former OC Transpo boss Steve Manconi, who retired last year.
On Wednesday, Justice William Hourigan issued his report into Ottawa’s fantastically dysfunctional new LRT line. Hourigan’s findings, if anything, were more scathing than expected. Basically Watson, Kanellakos, Manconi and some senior staffers were managing the entire project behind the scenes in a WhatsApp group as a desperate exercise in political crisis-management rather than transit-building. (Goodness knows what they thought the end game was.) Project standards and goalposts were changed to ensure good results, including those during the all-important trial-running phase of the LRT opening. Keeping City Council in the dark was crucial.
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