Posted Feb 20, 2026, 1:40 PM
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Watson left Sutcliffe important projects and partnerships on a silver platter, and Sutcliffe dropped the ball hard.
A decent Lansdowne 2.0 plan with the arena hidden within a berm and larger retail podium that included a concert venue and RecRoom;
A $120 million Byward Market plan ready to be completed by the 200th;
Completed studies for Stage 3 of the O-Train.
On top of that, he had relationships with Red Bull Crashed Ice and La Machine to get those evens back in Ottawa on the regular (though tbf, Covid can take some of the blame for those events falling off the radar).
Sutcliffe, on a promise of fixing transit, boosting tourism and planting a million trees has made transit far worse, cut in tourism, hasn't come close to planting those million trees. Lansdowne 2.0 is now a sloppy mess with no new destination that even removes a lot of what made the place good for double the price, the ByWard Plan has been revived but far less ambitious with more space for cars, and too late for the 200th, and Stage 3 might as well be dead.
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