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Fourteen people are running for mayor of Ottawa on the 2022 ballot. Photo by Wayne Cuddington/Postmedia
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The race is really on.
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Mayoral candidates had until Friday at 2 p.m. to register.
It will be a mass vote. With Jim Watson’s name not on the ballot for the first time since 2010 in the merged city, voters will be faced with old and new options.
Here’s who was in the running on Friday. A final certified list will be published on Monday.
Catherine McKenney has been the councilor for Somerset Ward since 2014. Photo by Tony Caldwell / Postmedia
Catherine McKenney
About the candidate: A political staffer for city councilors Diane Holmes and Alex Munter and NDP MPs Ed Broadbent and Paul Dewar before running for office, McKenney has served as a Somerset Ward councilor since 2014 and is known to adopt progressive initiatives to support affordability. home and supports for marginalized residents.
The platform: McKenney said they will make Ottawa the greenest city in Canada. Priorities include investing in social services and supports for Ottawa’s most vulnerable and encouraging active transportation and recreation and green initiatives that will make walking and cycling safer and more comfortable. They urge climate action, including creating a plan to make the city more resilient to extreme weather. They also support the creation of a more vibrant city through the arts, entertainment and culture sector. McKenney argues that Ottawa can become a city that works better for everyone while remaining fiscally responsible.
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Website: www.mckenney2022.ca
Mayoral candidate Bob Chiarelli. Photo by ERROL MCGIHON /Postmedia
Bob Chiarelli
The candidate: Chiarelli is a lawyer with extensive experience in municipal and provincial politics. He won his first provincial election in Ottawa West as a Liberal candidate in 1987 and was re-elected in 1990 and 1995. He was mayor of Ottawa from 2001 to 2006, when he came third in a three-way race against Alex Munter and Larry O’Brien, who won the election. He re-entered provincial politics in the 2010 Ottawa West-Nepean by-election and was re-elected in 2011 and 2014, but lost in a close three-way race in 2018. Chiarelli has served in the provincial cabinet with portfolios that include infrastructure. and transport, energy and municipal affairs and housing.
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The platform: Chiarelli says he has a track record of building consensus at a time when the city faces a fiscal reckoning. “We need to take back control of the city’s finances before we can pay for the extras we all want,” he tweeted. If elected, Chiarelli pledges to freeze taxes, fees and non-discretionary spending in the first year of his term and put the $332 million redevelopment of Lansdowne Park on hold. His plan includes having outside financial experts review city operations within 100 days of the new council taking office to find efficiencies that don’t affect core services until a strategic plan is developed. On the environment, Chiarelli would create a city council committee to work with Hydro Ottawa to develop climate change and carbon reduction policies.
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Website: bobchiarelli.ca
Mark Sutcliffe announced his candidacy for mayor Jon une 29 in a park in Kanata. Photo by Julie Oliver / Postmedia
Mark Sutcliffe
The candidate: Journalist, entrepreneur and business mentor, Sutcliffe co-founded the Ottawa Business Journal and worked at Newstalk 580 CFRA and CityNews and as executive editor and columnist for the Ottawa Citizen. He had never run for office before.
The platform: Sutcliffe’s main goals are to keep taxes low, fix the LRT, improve roads and make Ottawa safer. It pledges to adequately fund police, fire and paramedic services and to be tough on the causes of crime, tackle housing affordability and keep taxes and recreation rates as low as possible. This week, he unveiled details of his environmental platform, which included installing 200 electric vehicle charging stations and 100 electric bicycle charging stations and doubling Ottawa’s tree planting goals . Meanwhile, Sutcliffe said Chiarelli’s tax freeze proposal is not credible and something Chiarelli was unable to accomplish when he was last mayor. Sutcliffe proposes a review of city spending to protect services.
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Website: marksutcliffe.ca
Ottawa mayoral candidate Mike Maguire at Watson’s Mill in Manotick last month. TONY CALDWELL, Postmedia. Photo by Tony Caldwell / Postmedia
Mike Maguire
The candidate: A management consultant who lives in Kars, Maguire ran for mayor in 2010 and 2014, when he came in second to Jim Watson.
The platform: Maguire, a self-described fiscal conservative, has returned to a proposal from his 2014 campaign to use existing rail corridors to create commuter service and wants to restore OC Transpo bus routes for residents who consider that the LRT is inconvenient. Maguire said he will provide more details on the affordable housing proposals, including revising and streamlining planning processes to increase housing starts and using zoning to allow homes to be built costing less than 400,000 dollars for entry-level buyers.
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Website: mikeforottawa.ca.
Brandon Bay
The Candidate: Software developer Brandon Bay manages Welbi’s software development team, which creates software for retirement communities. He grew up near Bancroft, attended the University of Ottawa and is an active volunteer.
Platform: Bay’s priorities include affordable housing, investment and using Ottawa’s upcoming bicentennial in 2026 as an opportunity to boost the city’s economy, reputation and reconciliation with Indigenous communities. Among other proposals, he wants to ban the development of new shopping centers and intensify existing shopping centers, as well as the development of suburban urban centers to speed up the construction of 15-minute communities. He also wants to eliminate R1 and R2 exclusionary zoning, allowing duplexes, triplexes and townhouses throughout the city with no changes to building heights.
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Noor Kadri
The candidate: Kadri is a professor of strategic management and e-business at the University of Ottawa and president and CEO of Skyline Health Systems.
The platform: Kadri wants Ottawa to be an inclusive and livable city. It calls for a commitment to equity, anti-racism and Indigenous reconciliation and to leverage Ottawa’s engineering, science and government communities to deliver high-tech jobs, sustainable infrastructure and service delivery.
Website: www.kadri.ca/
Graham MacDonald
The candidate: CEO of Ottawa Mortuary Services, MacDonald has worked with Ottawa police to develop a mass casualty plan in the event of a terrorist attack or natural disaster and has coordinated military burials.
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The platform: MacDonald said he has witnessed death and crime scenes in and around Ottawa and cites mental health, addictions and overdoses, public safety and homelessness among the key issues. He said he would urge the council to appoint a “mental health officer” similar to a doctor of health to oversee mental health services.
Website: www.macdonald4mayor.com
Param Singh
The Candidate: A native of Montreal, Param Singh has been a police officer with the Ottawa Police Service since 2002.
The platform: Singh has identified diversity, affordable housing and transit among his priorities. He says he will create an expert transit system review committee to review existing traffic problems with the goal of providing practical recommendations. He also wants to make the EquiPass for low-income residents more affordable.
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Website: www.voteparam.com
Bernard Couchman
The candidate: Couchman, now in his third mayoral campaign, has a background in business and marketing.
Website: h2oboy.com/products/mayor-of-ottawa-2022-bernard-couchman
Ade Olumide
The Candidate: Olumide holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lagos and a Masters in Business Management from the University of Warwick. He is the former president of the Ottawa Taxpayer Advocacy Group.
Website: www.adeolumide.ca
Celine Debassige
Contact: Instagram page
Gregory Jreg Guevara
There is no website as listed by the City of Ottawa.
Zeb Chebib
There was no website listed for the City of Ottawa.
Jacob Solomon
The candidate: Solomon filed his nomination papers on Friday.
The platform: Salomó wants to make the bus and train free, legalize public drinking, more and better roads, a walkable city center, pianos in the streets and more bins.
Website: The jacobsolomonmay.com website had not been activated as of Friday.
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