A lot of Ottawa voters will complain about the city being full of traffic, boring and expensive.

To the 51% of people (out of 43% of the electorate) who voted for the Carbon Copy, I hope you enjoy having the same quality pot-hole roads, wall-to-wall traffic on the 417, boring cookie-cutter houses on winding roads that force you to drive absolutely everywhere, and no-showing OC Transpo buses forcing even more people to drive. Also I hope you make good use of your “lowered” property taxes that will be compensated for with… better roads?

To the 38% (of the 43% that voted) who voted for Catherine McKenny, just know that you tried your best to help the city change and improve, instead of continuing to stagnate, sprawl and head into obsolescence. Its not your fault that our municipal electoral system was deliberately manipulated and mangled by Mike Harris to ensure that a progressive Mayor of Ottawa could not be elected by people who actually live in Ottawa.

If more people turned out to vote, Catherine likely would have won. But it’s a longtime practice that urban communities vote less frequently (for a variety of socioeconomic reasons) than suburban communities. Keep up the good fight.