The four big challenges that await the new NCC boss, whoever it is

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OTTAWA — The next chief executive of the National Capital Commission will take over a beleaguered Crown corporation, one that’s been operating without a permanent top manager for nearly a year and a half. In that time, the commission has battled with the City of Ottawa over light-rail routes, presented two studies on transportation across the Ottawa River (one on transit, one on a new east-end bridge) that promptly sank, absorbed budget cuts and, toughest of all, seen its festival-planning responsibilities amputated and grafted onto the Department of Canadian Heritage, with dozens of staff going with them.

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