Doug Ford Must Act Now To Fix City Hall Chaos

So Doug Ford, what does it take for the province to rein in the out-of-control spending and chaotic organization at the City of Ottawa?

Here’s the tale of the tape premier:

• The city maintains it has an $8.6-billion hole in its transit system;
• The city is doing confidential settlements with unknown parties concerning unknown problems in the light-rail fiasco which, according to the CBC, is running in the hundred of millions of dollars;
• A discretionary coroner’s inquest has been called into the horrific Westboro bus crash five years ago and the results, from insider indications told to The Bulldog, are likely to be shocking;
• Open government is dead in the darkness of closed administration on Laurier Avenue;
• The director of the light-rail disaster is leaving;
• So many senior managers have left the City of Ottawa that many titles start with interim;
• Excellent people are not applying for good, important jobs at city hall because the ethical and administrative morass is appalling;
• The city closes the O-Train and Scott Street which runs beside LRT at the same time the main transportation corridor in the city, Highway 417, is shut creating traffic chaos;
• The city cannot get a handle on fixing and finishing the monstrously late and wholly unreliable light-rail project;
• The bus system has been butchered;
• City council will not fulfill its legally mandated role of oversight.

All this within the space of two weeks.

For the love of god, premier, when will the Ontario government, which is responsible for municipal governments, act to  appoint a commissioner and board (plus a battalion of auditors) to set administration, ethics and democracy straight at the City of Ottawa?

This woeful mess cannot be allowed to continue any longer.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford do your job.

Ken Gray

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