FRESH CITY HALL: Meet Wilson Lo, David Hill and Steve Desroches, who will represent Ottawa’s southern suburbs
Wilson Lo has become the first-ever councillor for the Barrhaven East ward.In his campaign become the first-ever city councillor for Barrhaven East, Wilson Lo set himself a goal of personally visiting every single house in the ward. He said made it to the last oneLo said he was “running to represent the community … not running to represent myself. So it was important to me that I made sure that my platform was also supplemented by the feedback of my neighbours.
Unsurprisingly, the opportunity to sit on the transit commission and transportation committee are both on his council wish list. After 25 years as an infantry officer, David Hill saw an opportunity to pursue a different kind of service in Barrhaven cIn deploying to the council table, having won the job of representing Barrhaven West, “I want to be a pragmatic, objective-oriented team player,” said Hill.
The marching orders he’s tasked himself with involve pushing for infrastructure that will serve his fast-growing ward , better transit and community safety, and a vow to “fight to keep taxes low” with inflation hurting household budgets.