You now have 5 minutes

Back in 2019 I was one of 17 candidates running for council to replace Nussbaum.

The Overbrook Community Association (oca) all candidate's forum helped demonstrate the difficulty of running a meaningful campaign.

There were such unimportant questions as cake or pie? Or cats or dogs? Each candidate would reply. Soon the evening was over.

Seriously?

But consider this, Ottawa Council has 25 members including the mayor.

Even if you gave each 5 minutes for closing arguments in a debate, that's a grueling 2 hours of commentary.

Meanwhile the city has a $5.5 billion budget and things need to happen.

Does else anybody see the problem here?

The vote is the important thing. The comments can be registered online and summarized by AI.

Politicians nded to do their politicking outside the vote at meetings.