10/05/2023
An Update Regarding the DOA List with the City of Ottawa
Councillor Wilson Lo and I are still corresponding. Please see below for parts of his latest email.
"My biggest hurdle right now is communicating with city staff from other cities, specifically Toronto and Hamilton. I’m interested in Toronto’s perspective, but the mayoral election there shortly before we met [through] their organisations into some disarray. I have follow-ups with their staff scheduled for late-October at the moment.
I posited the idea of volunteers to city staff, but that’s something the union would not support.
After our meeting, I also asked about making registration mandatory for cats and dogs, but mandatory registration only works if it can be properly enforced, and there really is no way of proactively enforcing animal registration or chipping. While there are points of control like adoption agencies, breeders, and shelters, they have to be in Ottawa for the control to be effective in ensuring the animals are registered (eg. a person who adopts a dog from Kingston won’t be subject to Ottawa rules there).
Apologies for how long this is taking, but do know I have not forgotten about this!"
