What's wrong with Ottawa

Ottawa is my hometown, it is a beautiful city in the summer and fall, it is a cold city in the winter, we have a great canal, it runs through the city, it is the best skating rink in the world, it is not the creek that Winnipeg has claimed as the longest skating rink in the world . People travel to Ottawa in the winter just to skate on our canal. We have tulips, millions of tulips, if you have a flower fetish Ottawa is the place to be. Ottawa has greenspace, lots of greenspace, we have trees as well, and a festival or two, the tulip festival is one, go figure.

So what's wrong with Ottawa? The people that run it, we have a city council that has buried their combined heads up their asses. They are clueless when it comes to running a progressive city, well we don't really have a progressive city, thanks to this "always manage to get re-elected" bunch, although that doesn't say much for the people of Ottawa that keep re-electing them. I do have to say that there are a few that occationally appear to pretend to understand what is going on, and then the next day they wake up stupid again.

Studies, do we have studies, council does studies to study why the city does so many studies. They have just decided the route of our new rapid transit light rail, the down side is that it goes from point K to point L, unfortunately it doesn't go from A to K or L to Z, in effect it goes no where. The up side is that it won't ever happen, there is a new study and when they discover that they can't tunnel through the bedrock under the city without spending an extra 100 billion, they'll decide that it wasn't such a good idea, but they'll study that.

There is a new study going on, well negotiations I suppose, to decide if some well connected and intelligent developers are worthly enough to spend their own 100 milion making Ottawa a better place. You see we need a stadium upgrade, and several councillors want the present stadium levelled and a new cattle pasture erected. We do need more greenspace and flowers.

So what's wrong with Ottawa it's boring, and the city councillors want to keep it this way.

But I still love the city.