City of Ottawa Planning Department

[McC]

I think the article's fair; it's not a fabulous position that the City has put itself in, remembering that it is the appearance of a conflict of interest that must be avoided. I imagine there are more than a couple of un(der)employed planners in the region that the city could have brought in on short term contract with much less risk of failing the old "sniff test" (though I do hate that expression).