Will Councillors Take On Bigger Jobs? CRERAR
The next Ottawa municipal election is scheduled for October 2026. With a federal election upcoming before October and rumours of an imminent provincial election, how many of Ottawa’s city councilors will try to become MPs and MPPs?
The city of Ottawa is a mess now. The issues well known. Any city councilor who tries their luck in either of the non-municipal elections has nothing to lose, or do they?
If a city councilor throws their hat into the provincial or federal ring and win, they’ll receive a larger salary and discretionary spending allowance, a trip out of Ottawa City Hall, and a bigger slice of ego pie. If they’re not elected, they can always run for city council again in 2026.
But, will voters re-elect someone who has admitted their interests no longer reside locally and be welcomed back with opened arms? What a great opportunity voters will have to discover which councilors are serious about their current jobs.
City councilors running for office in a different political arena could help clear some of the deadwood out of city hall and bring in eager new representatives?
Howard Crerar is a project manager and has worked in the software industry for three decades.
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I certainly hope not. It’s bad enough that the inexperienced rookie councillors and Mayor have exacerbated the issues in our city. I pray they steer clear of higher levels of government. Let’s hope they learn from their colossal blunders and disappear, never to be elected again.
It is interesting in Vancouver there are actual parties of candidates with a common platform. Here in Ottawa, the provincial and federal parties secretly sponsor candidates by providing volunteers and organizational expertise. They parties use the municipal elections to train their future federal and provincial candidates. There appears to be a succession plan in place.
Seems it worked for Jim Watson. He was the mayor of pre-amalgamation Ottawa, quit early and then ran for MPP in Ottawa West, was elected and then promoted to cabinet. He then quit that post and came back to Ottawa to run for mayor and was again elected. Then, of course, after the LRT inquiry, he didn’t run again in Ottawa, no doubt fearing defeat if he did.