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Stop promising to revamp the ByWard Market. Do it already. | Opinion

Brigitte Pellerin: Much of what Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe is now promising was already in a 2021 plan approved by a previous Council.

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Something about living in the national capital helps desensitize us to politicians being overly political and doing annoyingly political things like taking credit multiple times for the same lack of accomplishment. I just didn’t expect a leader who won precisely because he wasn’t a typical politician to do it, too. Yet here’s Mayor Mark Sutcliffe taking credit for promising to revamp the ByWard Market. Again.

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