Where Are Those Flat Roads, Mark Sutcliffe?

If you weren’t sure the 2026 election campaign was on, watch the video below featuring Mayor Mark Sutcliffe to see how much money has been spent to improve Ottawa’s roads and sidewalks.

All that money spent and yet the roads are terrible and the sidewalks substandard.

We need to get back to basic services in this community. Forget the frills. That way the public service isn’t over-sized and the private sector can take the steps forward to make for a better community.

We need a city that provides the basic services and creates an environment where people and businesses can strive.

Accordingly, Ottawa needs such things as good transit, good parks and recreation facilities, outstanding garbage and recycling pick-up, adequate electric capacity, a better Ottawa Police Service, great first responders, outstanding universal health-care, good senior security  … well the list goes on. And help the people who need help, not the ones who don’t.

What Ottawa doesn’t require are hundreds of millions of dollars of frills like Lansdowne which has not been a success and won’t be a success after Lansdowne 2.0.

We must empower people and create an atmosphere where individuals and businesses can prosper. And if business wants to do something, government doesn’t need to pay for it. If the private endeavour is worth doing, the market will be the judge of that. We should create a community where people can succeed but not have the government pay for that success. Some bad ideas will fail and they should be allowed to fail, not bail them out. Private enterprise succeeds when good businesses grow and bad businesses are weeded out.

Government can’t do everything but must provide the tools such as good roads and transit so the community can prosper. You don’t prosper by bailing out bad ideas and bad businesses.

Government should provide the services that private industry cannot … not everything. Government must create the tools for success that will empower a better community.

For example, we don’t need talk about building better roads, just build better roads and forget the hype.

Ken Gray

When I ran for mayor, residents told me they wanted better roads and sidewalks. Since then, we’ve boosted the roads budget by 40% and sidewalks by nearly 30% — funding hundreds of improvements across Ottawa. We’ve made progress, and there’s more to do. Watch the video to learn… pic.twitter.com/0dCIS7Ug9s

— Mark Sutcliffe (@_MarkSutcliffe) July 6, 2025

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