Your representative
represents . In the , received $ from individuals connected to the real estate development industry, totaling of their campaign contributions.Developer-connected donations
Because of us, developers are giving less money to candidates
This is the second time Horizon Ottawa has done a deep-dive on developer influence in Ottawa politics: we also did this in 2018. We used that data to run a public pressure campaign against accepting developer contributions in the 2022 municipal election.
It was a strong success, and many candidates pledged to not take donations connected to the development industry – including our mayor, Mark Sutcliffe. (However, he did end up taking over $100,000 of these donations)
Despite our mayor breaking his commitment, we saw an overall decline of 45% of donations connected to the development industry in 2022 versus 2018. Still, $300,000 worth of these contributions is dangerous to a healthy democracy.