Ottawa Election 2026: Rob Millan, Kanata North Ward

Moving on more to growth.

Picture your ward 10 years from now with city council doing what they do.

If they made all the right decisions, what would it look like?

That utopia meme again? Yeah, exactly.

So I mean, definitely a wide variety of people being able to move in, young people, young couples, single people, students, fresh out of university, maybe living in the tech park, working.

block or two away then again young couples people in their like 30s 40s retirees everyone I think unfortunately it seems almost as though there's certain kind of almost stereotypes where suburbs attract one kind of demographic the core attracts another I think in reality in any community a great community is a community where people of all ages, of all socioeconomic statuses, are able to move in and have a great community that they live in and a great experience.

And so, I mean, also 10 years from now, I think we have to have a Stage 3 LRT going to Kanata for sure.

So if you're a Barhaven guy, then you also understand, I think, the perils and the plight that us Barhaven and Kanata people are going through.

And I mean, I have friends in Orleans.

I have family in Orleans.

So I'm not knocking Orleans.

But sometimes I sit there and I think, you guys are so lucky.

You guys are getting LRT to trim, like trim road, before Barhaven and Kanata, before it even touches us.

So it's kind of...

I think we definitely need to have that get underway.

And so my priority... long-term in addition to growing out the tech part would definitely be that Stage 3 LRT has to be funded because otherwise it's one of those kind of pieces of the puzzle where if we have a Stage 3 LRT going to Kanata then not everyone that's going to work in the tech park is going to live in Kanata, but if they can then get from Orleans, from Barhaven, from the city center to the tech park for work and then go home at the end of the day via LRT, that also relieves a lot of strain on the roads and a lot of the traffic.

So it's kind of, there's a lot of moving parts that need to come together to achieve the utopia.

Okay.

Speaking of growth, new growth needs roads, pipes, parks.

How should the city pay for this?

So a lot of people then will think it's a matter of, well, you can't have everything and not raise taxes.

Or in reality, I think that is a style of thinking that we definitely need to move away from.

So in reality, if we were if we had a booming business economy and commercial commercial tax base.

we could actually afford a lot more and we i'm not saying we would never need to raise taxes but if we grew the amount of businesses moving into ottawa moving to the canada tech park businesses use less city services than residential areas the property tax on businesses is i believe i believe it's it's a bit higher than residential properties and They then additionally pay, I think, additional kind of fees to the city.

Not like an income tax to the city, but there's a lot of...