The report includes 20 recommendations that auditor general Nathalie Gougeon hopes will improve the city\u0027s response to similar situations.
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But she also found plenty of faults with the city’s actions. One was a failure to properly keep councillors informed. Of 2,139 tickets issued in the convoy “red zone” last winter, 56 per cent of fines were collected, nine per cent are at trial and 31 per cent remain outstanding, the auditor general’s report said Wednesday.Ottawa police warned bylaw and regulatory services officers not to be “the spark” that would incite violence from protesters because police were already stretched too thin to respond, she noted.
One of the report’s recommendations is that the city switch to setting up a municipal alternative to traffic court to speed collection of fines. The Administrative Monetary Penalty System is already used in Toronto, Mississauga, Waterloo and other municipalities. Gougeon was also critical of the city’s legal advisors, saying they didn’t do enough to inform city managers about seeking a court injunction to end the demonstration. It took 10 days for the mayor and councillors to receive a memo about the city’s legal authority, she wrote.
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