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Despite better-than-ever relations between the National Capital Commission and area municipalities, NCC chair Russell Mills isn’t keen on a proposal by local mayors to appoint one representative each to the NCC’s board of directors.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin have been pushing the idea of city council representatives on the NCC board for some time and reiterated that goal last month at a joint news conference.
Questioned by reporters Tuesday, Mills said the issue of whether mayors should be on the board dates back to the creation of the NCC in the late 1950s.
“The issue I see is that those of us on the board of directors, our mandate is to do the best we can to represent all 35 million Canadians and try to build a capital that will suit everybody and future generations,” Mill said.
By contrast, mayors have “a very specific commitment to their constituents,” he said. “They’re elected by those people and are required to look after their interests.”
The problem would be balancing the mayors’ electoral commitments with the need to serve all Canadians, the NCC chair said. “I think that’s a pretty difficult thing to get around.”
The current relationship between the NCC and the mayors and city officials is now “better than its ever been” during Mills’ eight years as chair.
“We went through a bit of a bumpy patch when we were tryng to work out the routing of the light rail system on the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, but we’re over that,” he said. “Now we’re getting along with them extremely well.”
Mark Kristmanson, the NCC’s chief executive, said there’s now a “much more robust” series of meetings between NCC and city representatives.
“I would just want to reassure the public that we’re making actually pretty good progress on many, many files and many, many projects,” Kristmanson said.
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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin have been pushing the idea of city council representatives on the NCC board for some time and reiterated that goal last month at a joint news conference.
Questioned by reporters Tuesday, Mills said the issue of whether mayors should be on the board dates back to the creation of the NCC in the late 1950s.
“The issue I see is that those of us on the board of directors, our mandate is to do the best we can to represent all 35 million Canadians and try to build a capital that will suit everybody and future generations,” Mill said.
By contrast, mayors have “a very specific commitment to their constituents,” he said. “They’re elected by those people and are required to look after their interests.”
The problem would be balancing the mayors’ electoral commitments with the need to serve all Canadians, the NCC chair said. “I think that’s a pretty difficult thing to get around.”
The current relationship between the NCC and the mayors and city officials is now “better than its ever been” during Mills’ eight years as chair.
“We went through a bit of a bumpy patch when we were tryng to work out the routing of the light rail system on the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, but we’re over that,” he said. “Now we’re getting along with them extremely well.”
Mark Kristmanson, the NCC’s chief executive, said there’s now a “much more robust” series of meetings between NCC and city representatives.
“I would just want to reassure the public that we’re making actually pretty good progress on many, many files and many, many projects,” Kristmanson said.
dbutler@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/ButlerDon
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