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Ottawa Coalition for a People’s Budget - Alternative Municipal Budget 2021

2 Nov 2020

The dis- ease was always presented as something to be solved in the future, but for certain exigences of budget, but for planning, but for the faults of “those” people, their lack of responsibility, but for all that, there were plans to remedy it, in some future time.” - Dionne Brand On narrative, reckoning, and the calculus of living and dying Since March 25, 2020, the City of Ottawa down and it. [...] The City re-invests the Endowment Fund into a new vehicle, the Everyone has access to safe, affordable, and Ottawa Climate Finance and Economic appropriate homes, through annual Development Corporation.5 investments in deeply affordable housing, focusing on connectivity and the specific Transit is free at the point of use and OC needs of women, LGBTQ2S+, Black, Transpo is more accessible and susta. [...] The goal is to present the to educate and engage residents across parameters of the budget process and Ottawa with the municipal budget, and we encourage active participation from invite them to participate in the budgeting residents in the budget process. [...] As a result, the City is expected to have a of the police in perpetuating race-based financial deficit of $46.6M by the end of the violence. [...] The economic and health impacts of the pandemic have brought these challenges to a To fulfil this vision, we call on the City to boiling point and made them impossible to adopt the policies outlined within this ignore any longer.

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Clement Nocos

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