The LRT report isn\u0027t the main problem\u003B the fact that the mayor, council and staff make it hard to get meaningful information is.
The problem is the standards implied by the commissioner’s comments. In Justice William Hourigan’s world, politicians, bureaucrats and even corporations should be expected to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth at all times, always placing the public interest above their own.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
According to the commission report, failure to share this information “prevented councillors from fulfilling their statutory duties to the people of Ottawa.” What, exactly, would councillors have done with the missing information? The widely shared desire was to get the trains in operation, not find new reasons to hold up the long-delayed start of service.Article content
Hourigan does criticize the major international corporations that failed to deliver a reliable system according to schedule, which is the main problem, but he reserves most of his venom for city politicians and staff.Article content
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