Papineau and Lalonde: Ottawa councillors should challenge top bureaucrats — and in public

When Ottawa city Coun. Riley Brockington recently questioned, in a public forum, how the job performance of Transit Services general manager Renée Amilcar is judged, some of his colleagues portrayed the query as a personal attack. But why is it that senior city bureaucrats, charged with providing the services we pay for, can't be critically questioned in a public setting? Read More