Politics And The Kanata Golf Course: QUOTABLE.

“It has always been hard to understand why it’s so important for Ottawa to stop the redevelopment of a suburban golf course in Kanata North, particularly as councillors continue to push for more housing.”

Randall Denley, Ottawa Citizen

Maybe Mayor Mark Sutcliffe really likes golf. That’s understandable. It’s a lovely pastime when it doesn’t spoil your walk..

And Sutcliffe loves his sports. He runs around a lot, has done play-by-play on Rogers for the Ottawa Lynx baseball club and he even is willing to put a half-billion dollars into half a football stadium.

But it might be something else. The 1,500 potential homeowners on a Kanata golf course don’t even know they’re moving there yet but the current dwellers on the edges of the course are some kind of perturbed about losing the fairway behind their home. That’s understandable and, furthermore, they might be wondering why the mayor allowed this to happen. Some of them even vote. Not for Sutcliffe if this golf course in destroyed or his good soldier Kanata North Councillor Cathy Curry.

So Sutcliffe has to be shown to be fighting with all his might against these homes (homes probably not exactly for the proletariat … workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your double-bogies) and, by golly, he and Curry did fight. On a lost cause that was lost from the first day it became a cause. All the way to the Supreme Court of all of Canada. So there.

Except that the Supreme Court decided not to hear the case and doesn’t need to give a reason and didn’t. Love and the Supreme Court means you never have to say you’re sorry. And there was about a snowball’s chance in hell of the court hearing it. But no matter. That didn’t stop the mayor and Curry from spending all that legal money on saving their votes. You do that because it’s politics and you’re paying the bill. I feel better already. What a lousy way to make a living.

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Of course, Denley knows all these things. He’s been covering local politics since Col. By threw the first shovel-full of dirt at the Rideau Canal. Denley was against spending public money on the ditch.

Nevertheless Denley has found the basic hypocrisy behind the city’s Kanata lands’ position though that’s no salve for the golf-course homeowners. They’re angry and they have every reason to be. Their backyards will change and that was not part of the original deal.

So no doubt Sutcliffe and Curry will be backing housing somewhere else, just not on an ex-golf course.

And for the current golf course homeowners, life isn’t fair is it.

Ken Gray

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