Here are the candidates for the 2022 Ottawa municipal election
“I am pleased that this election will no longer be a referendum on the scandals of the current city councillor, but that we can focus on the many issues that have been coming up at the doors,” Johnson wrote. “I’m interested in the democratic process. I think it’s fun. I think it’s interesting. And I think it’s awesome that anyone who lives in the city has a fair chance of having a say in this government. And I think, if you don’t take advantage of that, you’re kind of missing an opportunity if you feel like you can actually make a change.”Article content
Eight school board trustee candidates were elected by acclamation, all in Ottawa’s two French boards, but there will be a competition for every council seat. The two wards with single candidates registered as of Thursday — Rideau-Rockcliffe and Orléans West-Innes — now have challengers to incumbents Rawlson King and Laura Dudas.
In the last hour before the deadline, Josh Rachlis was still working out whether to run for mayor, councillor or school board trustee. With just seconds to spare before the locking of elections office doors, Zainab Alsalihiy made it inside and onto the list of council candidates for Riverside South-Findlay Creek. There was a brief scare when she thought she’d left her ID in the car and wouldn’t have been allowed to re-enter if she retrieved it. It did turn up in her bag, but “whatever’s meant to happen is meant to happen,” she said.