Stittsville Coun. Glen Gower speaks to Mayor Mark Sutcliffe during an Ottawa city council meeting on July 10, 2024.
The contentious debate over whether to ban councillors from negotiating donations for their wards sparked confusion around the council table on Wednesday, as the city clerk struggled to answer a litany of questions on hypothetical no-go scenarios.Stittsville Coun. Glen Gower, left, and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, right, are both in favour of tamping down on councillor involvement in developer donations to wards.
"I know some councillors said they saw this as a solution in search of a problem, but I don't see it that way. There is a perception that there's a risk here — the conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest — and we don't want the development process to be tainted." Central to this debate has been whether an inherent power dynamic exists between councillors and developers that removes the possibility of negotiating without a real or perceived conflict."Staff report to committee about whether they support a particular development in the same way that we have the opportunity to vote a committee on whether we support a particular development," she said. "Their recommendations frankly form the basis of what we usually vote for. We usually agree.
"It's a perversion of local governance," he said. "I don't anticipate that there's any ill will, mayor… but if this motion passes, we are creating a shadow regime."
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