The convoy crisis illustrated a few things about McKenney. For starters, they have guts.
While most councillors appeared on the video call from home — a regular practice during the pandemic — McKenney was instead wearing an N95 mask while strolling through the city’s downtown core, where jerry cans were piled up next to trucks adorned with Canada flags.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
For people living downtown amid the convoy chaos, McKenney’s presence meant a lot, says Brenda Knight, who lives in a condo at Bay and Queen streets. McKenney’s campaign has focused on climate change, affordable housing, reliable transit and transparency at city hall. They promise to freeze OC Transpo fares and offer free rides for everyone under 18. They talk about walkable neighbourhoods and better bike paths, increasing the tree canopy, limiting urban sprawl, ending chronic homelessness and making Ottawa a world leader in reaching net-zero carbon emissions.
“I went home and I said to my mother: ‘you can’t tell me there’s a Santa Claus,’ ” they recounted. “I was upset.” It led McKenney into municipal politics in the late 1990s, where they worked for two progressive city councillors: Alex Munter and Diane Holmes. McKenney shifted to federal politics in 2004 as a legislative assistant for former NDP MPs Ed Broadbent and Paul Dewar, only to return to Ottawa city council in 2008 as a senior advisor to then-deputy city manager, Steve Kanellakos.Article content
In 16 years, McKenney and their running partner haven’t missed a day due to weather. “We’ve missed for other things, like an injury, but never because it was too hot, too cold or too rainy.”Article content
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