Jim Watson

And he was the king of his trailer park when he would have parties because of these egg rolls.

I don't know if you remember Jim Watson.

He used to make that his bets on hockey.

Like for Montreal, it would be my egg rolls against your...

Mayoral politics is served as mayor, left, come back and win.

Jim Watson did it.

Greta Eisenberger did it in Hamilton.

He lost to Bob Bertina.

And it's falling pretty much entirely on taxpayers to shoulder.

Let's go back a little bit further to 2008, back to Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government, when Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Watson declared, and I'm paraphrasing here, that the era of downloading was officially over.

The province had agreed to gradually re-upload costs such as welfare and court security over the following decade.

Sure, this is genuine progress, But there was a lot left out, such as social housing was explicitly left out of the process.

The, uh...

And the budget process has been a frustration of mine for the twelve years I've been a councilor, uh, first under Jim Watson and then Mark Sutcliffe.

Right now, the budget process is such that right about now, you know, toward the end of the summer, the budget is written by staff and the mayor.

Then we vote on a tax cap that may or may not meet the needs of what Ottawa residents deserve and expect.