Ottawa City Hall's latest ridiculous plan is to map and measure every Ottawa urban residential property to determine what percentage of the surface is impervious to water.

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One might have thought the way the City of Ottawa bills people for water and sewers was sufficiently complex with its array of fixed rates, usage tiers and different methods for different types of properties.

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But no, city water bureaucrats have made things even more complicated in a way that’s literally unbelievable, so much so that when people started talking about it on X, it sounded like a hoax. Sadly,