From todays Citizen, on the issue of the Mayor sniping some of the City Manager’s roles:
Mr. O’Brien says he has full confidence in Mr. Kirkpatrick, “as an individual and as a professional. But if things were done in a way to meet all my expectations, I would not be making this request.”
Now, the first part of that sentence does not mean the same thing as the last part.
Moreover, the means that Ottawa is uniquely suited as a city where one level of government based here wants, at least officially, to remove politicians from appointments and contracts as much as possible, and another wants politicians more involved.