Thursday, November 20, 2008

Sometimes I wish that Clive Doucet would take a walk in a snowstorm.

Clive Doucet, city councillor for the rich and the poor in centretown, champion of ultra-left and self-promoter extraordinaire, has been in municipal government since Col By founded this place and if were up to him nothing would have progressed since that time.  We would still have mud roads, horse and buggy and a Kresge store on every corner.  He takes a hold of every issue put before city council, washes through the morass of his own hundred years of experience and then announces that he has a better idea.

He is against roads in the suburbs.  He is against developing Landsdowne Park using plans put forward by local developers.   I am sure that he is also against people who have the audacity to not listen to him.  And that latter group, especially on council, is growing.

Come on Clive, get off your soap box and let's get this city moving.  Sometimes other people, including those stupid city staff, get things right.  Rather than just opposing everything... give an inch once in a while.

And finally, Clive, please announce that you will not run in the next election... for the sake of the citizens of all of Ottawa.

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