Episode 76, part 1 - Municipal Interview Series with Ottawa Councillor Rawlson King
On this week’s episode, we’re honoured to welcome Ottawa City Councillor Rawlson King to The Drip. Rawlson became Ottawa’s first ever Black councillor after winning his seat in a historic April 2019 by-election, and hasn't stopped blazing trails since.
He represents Canada's capital city on our Municipal Interview Series, which was first established as Bytown in 1826 and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855. Census 2016 put Ottawa’s population at 934,243, but the city estimated that it passed 1 million residents in 2019. It’s Canada’s 4th largest city, 26% of which are racialized, and Black people make up the largest racialized group at 7%.
We had a deep diving discussion on anti-Black racism in Ottawa and what he and others on council are doing about it; Ottawa's LRT woes and what Toronto can learn from it; hard conversations and Indigenous Reconciliation; Premier Doug Ford's hatred of EV incentives and plenty more.
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