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Comments by James O'Grady
I could see Naqvi switching to run provincially again. Harden has run afoul of his provincial party. Harden wouldn't make this move if his replacement wasn't already "approved".
As Christopher Ragan said on the podcast, the federal carbon rebate doesn't apply to provinces that have their own carbon solution like BC and Quebec.
I voted: YesThe rebate I received was a nice bonus.
On this issue we agree. Housing is not just about numbers, it’s also about neighborhoods and communities, families and children. Canada’s single family home communities are the safest communities in the province and the best place to raise a family. Using infill projects to build affordable four-plexes in single family home communities is not the right approach to growing smartly because it can undermine the existing community in so many different ways: socio-economic, planning, traffic, parking, education, demographic/psychographic, etc.
While affordable housing is needed, why destroy our best communities to raise a family, and the urban forest in the process (a subject near and dear to me), just to do so? No, we don’t want urban sprawl either. I don’t believe it’s one or the other. We have so many contaminated properties in our cities—here’s a chance to build housing while also cleaning contaminated land, and creating a new community in the process. We could also convert business parks in the same way, of which we have too many anyway. The oil and gas depot off of Merivale Rd. just south of Huntclub should be moved anyway. Ottawa has grown past it. There’s a large space that could easily by cleaned so a new community can built on top of it.
I would not constrict the types of homes that can be built because you want to let the planners make the most of their opportunity. Just restrict where it can happen. Look at cleaning contaminated land first.