Running up to the City Council meeting of July 8, 2015 various city standing committees are considering for approval a document that lays out the city's priorities until the next municipal election.
What follows here is a draft for discussion of Ecology Ottawa's detailed analysis of how this document stacks up. For a more condensed commentary click here.
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