That Huge Blast Of Hot Air Comes From Kanata South

Published 05/24/2023 · Updated 05/25/2023

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“We are the tech capital of Canada; if we can help companies develop new technologies that is going to handle the garbage of the future, then we should be all in.”

Kanata South Councillor Allan Hubley

The largest source of greenhouse gas in west Ottawa is Kanata South Councillor Allan Hubley.

The good councillor spews methane at an unimaginable rate and he’s back at it again. Doesn’t he realize there’s a climate emergency?

Environment Canada reported repeated spikes of greenhouse gases each time Hubley pronounced on the success of the light-rail project and the stunning progress made by transportation in Ottawa.

An all-time record for the release of methane in the national capital region was set when Hubley announced that light-rail had finally come to Kanata. Environment Canada said Ottawa air quality reached a record low when Hubley’s LRT faux pas came to the fore resulting in three-quarters of residents laughing for hours upon hearing that whopper. The methane release was unfathomable. That spike stayed at record levels when Hubley declared the Moodie Drive LRT station was in Kanata and Ottawa residents busted a gut laughing.

This came as a surprise to west-end residents whose Aubrey Moodie, for whom Moodie Drive was named, was Nepean’s most prominent politician in history.

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Now Hubley is pointing toward incineration as a solution to his and other Ottawans’ garbage problems. Now Hubley might have missed this faulty method because he was the chairman of the civic transit commission (which during Hubley’s reign set back transportation by a decade or three) where practical transit solutions are rarely discussed. It’s the commission in a bubble.

So Hubley presided over $6.4 billion of good intentions gone horribly bad with light rail … which was to improve Ottawa’s and the world’s climate. And each time LRT screwed up, there was Hubley defending the mess and recklessly contributing to the greenhouse gas problem by speaking … garbage. Subsequent to Hubley’s departure, transit commission continues to follow his example by approving, in a rush, $1 billion of poorly tested e-buses that look likely to stall out on the first day of cold weather, post-service inauguration.

The legacy of Hubley stands at transit commission where the Kanata South councillor was the human embodiment of Murphy’s Law. Since then, the commission has contributed further to the Hubley legacy. A tribute or a faux pas … take your choice.

Not having caused enough damage to transit and commonsense in the community, Hubley now wants to consider burning garbage.

Do the math, councillor. The city has just forked out $7.2 billion to combat greenhouses gases in transportation and now Hubley is considering contributing to them. The mind wobbles.

But Hubley masks this initiative as an effort to find new methods of dealing with garbage. After all, Kanata South residents failed to address it in the last municipal election.

So new incineration methods helped along by the city … did the good councillor forget Plasco?

So on one hand we have Hubley wanting to contribute to greenhouse gases and cut them at the same time. Where do we find this kind of genius? When Hubley gets involved with waste, if we didn’t have a garbage problem before, we’ll have one soon when Hubley gets his way. If the city really wants to deal with the hot-air crisis, perhaps we could ship Hubley to Scarborough. And if that isn’t far enough away, send him farther. Maybe on a worldwide tour of landfills which could take more than a decade. And we send him because Hubley sure knows his garbage.

Hubley also believes in recycling. For the councillor broke out that old saw that Ottawa is the tech capital of the country. And it was … a quarter century ago. That was an economic and environmentally sound reuse of errors. Of course, Waterloo and Toronto surpassed Ottawa in tech many years ago

Hubley wants Ottawa to be a national leader in garbage. And we should give him a medal or a plaque for the good councillor’s contribution to the waste problem of which he knows next to nothing.

Hubley wants to undo $7.2 billion of civic (kinda) progress on climate change by burning garbage.

Ottawans might not get great leadership at city hall but you can’t beat the entertainment value on Laurier Avenue. That alone is reason enough we pay civic taxes.

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Hubley wants to deal with the garbage of the future, but how will voters in Kanata South deal with the refuse of today in the next election?

That’s quite a bag of gas out there in the western reaches of Ottawa.

Ken Gray

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