City officials, including the City Manager, a city lawyer and a former director of the City of Ottawa's Economic Development and Strategic Planning Branch, told the committee that it took three years to develop the project. They analysed the project and submitted it to the Department of Transport and other departments, who approved it. They also told us that the project did not run over budget and that it had received Treasury Board approval.
After municipal officials and duly elected councillors had followed all of these steps, why did you suddenly decide to change the rules of the game and interfere in this matter? Were there serious grounds for doing so?