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Events
Second Annual
Lecture
Forging Into the Future:
Changing the Political Landscape
Clive Doucet
Councillor, City of Ottawa
A poet and politician, Councillor Doucet will speak on changing the political landscape in the quest for a sustainable future. The evening will include brief responses from a panel and the presentation of the winners of the first annual Spirit
of Red Hill Writing Awards.
Wednesday, October 18th
7:30 p.m. (Doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
First Unitarian Church
170 Dundurn Street South
Organized by the Friends of the Red Hill Valley |
More About Clive Doucet….
Clive Doucet is a lifelong resident of Ottawa. He holds a Bachelor of Arts
in Urban Anthropology from the University of Toronto & an MSc from the
Université de Montréal.
Doucet was first elected to the Ottawa City
Council in 1997 and was re-elected in 2000
and 2003. He is running for his fourth term of
office in the November 13 province-wide
municipal elections.
Before becoming a politician, Doucet worked
for the former Federal Ministry of Urban
Affairs, and as a policy advisor for the local
government reform section of Ontario’s
Ministry of Municipal Affairs.
In a 2005 article published in the Montreal
magazine maisonneuve, Doucet wrote: “For
fifty years, we’ve sponsored the most
expensive and unsustainable form of urban growth and penalized the least
harmful.”
He went on: “And I’ve come to realize that this destructive escalation has
nothing to do with a lack of good planning or a lack of knowledge ….
Knowledge isn’t the problem, the system is. And as long as a link exists
between money and political power, nothing will change for cities.”
A panel will respond to Doucet. On it will be John Barber, Globe and Mail
urban columnist, Ben Vanderbrug, former General Manager of the Hamilton
Conservation Authority, and Spectator City Hall reporter Nicole Macintyre.
The Spirit of Red Hill Lecture series began last year as a way of keeping
alive the spirit of the Red Hill Valley, now being de-natured to make way for
an expressway. The series’ first speaker was Donald Schmitt, principal of
the Toronto architectural firm Diamond + Schmitt.
For more information email us at redhill@hwcn.org or call (905) 385-9490.
For other current events, visit www.actlocally.info.
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