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FRIDAY • January 7 • 2022
Former Liberal cabinet minister Bob Chiarelli to seek a third run as Ottawa Mayor By Charlie Senack Barrhaven resident Bob Chiarelli, who is known for his various political roles, has announced he will take another run for the Mayor’s seat. Chiarelli, who will be 81 next year, was Mayor of Ottawa from September 1987 to July 1997, and then from 2001 until 2006. In the years between, Chiarelli served as Ottawa’s regional chair. The active threetime grandfather was also a Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Ottawa-West Nepean from March 2010 until being defeated in June 2018. The former Mayor was at the city’s helm when Ottawa and Nepean amalgamated together in 2001. Chiarelli says he’s been faced with many challenges over his political ca-
reer, and almost always was able to find solutions. It’s leadership which he says Ottawa needs more now than ever. “I think people will agree that the current council was problematic in a number of ways,” Chiarelli told the Barrhaven Independent. “I am a facilitator, and I’m fair minded. It is pretty obvious, unfortunately so, that under the current administration, council has become more divided and toxic than ever, with urban councillors being shut out of chair positions, being kept out of the loop, and sometimes being embarrassed in public.” During the most recent term of council, some councillors in the downtown core were left disappointed after not receiving prominent positions on city committees. Most
recently, Kitchissippi Ward Councillor Jeff Leiper lost a vote to become the next chair of planning, after Barrhaven councillor Jan Harder stepped down from the role. Stitsville Councillor Glen Gower and Rideau-Goulborn Councillor Scott Moffatt now co-chair the prominent position. “I believe the perspective of a lot of people — if not most people — is that almost everything (in this city) has been moving in the wrong direction,” said Chiarelli. “There is escalating debt that has doubled under the current management, the city is on the hook for $360 million for the sink hole and the resulting LRT delay costs, which they have little chance of recovering in court. What if they lose or only win half the case? That is a lot of money on the table that is
not budgeted at the present time.” Chiarelli, who already has a campaign team in place, noted how long the commute time is by car from Barrhaven to downtown Ottawa, a drive which before would only take 15-20 minutes; Now it could take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour depending on traffic. “When you think of Barrhaven, think of the congestion. It is unacceptable,” the Barrhaven resident said. “Look at Strandherd, Greenbank, Prince of Wales. People talk about this a lot and how long it takes to go from A to B. They talk about the LRT that is not there, and it should have been by now, or at least under construction.”
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Barrhaven resident Bob Chiarelli will be seeking a third run as Ottawa’s Mayor. Charlie Senack photo
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