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Ottawa mayoral debate at 10 a.m. today: four leading candidates face off
CTV News Ottawa hosts a televised mayoral debate at 10 a.m. today with front-runners Sutcliffe, Leiper, Saravanamuttoo and Lawson; advance voting starts Oct 16, election day Oct 26.
Why it matters
This is the last televised debate before the Oct 26 vote — and the final chance for candidates to sway undecided voters before advance voting begins Oct 16; the latest poll shows 23% of voters still undecided.
Full report
CTV News Ottawa will host the Ottawa mayoral election debate today (Oct 14) at 10 a.m. ET, with the four leading candidates — incumbent Mark Sutcliffe, councillor Jeff Leiper, economist Neil Saravanamuttoo and homebuilder Alex Lawson — facing off. Viewers can watch live on CTVNewsOttawa.ca or listen via Newstalk 580 CFRA.
Campaign context: a Nanos Research poll for CTV (Oct 4–8, 762 Ottawa residents) put Sutcliffe at 48.6% among decided voters, ahead of Leiper at 31.2%, Saravanamuttoo at 11.8% and Lawson at 7.2%, with 23% undecided. Transit dominates the agenda: 55% of respondents ranked transit as the city service most in need of improvement.
The candidates already debated once earlier this month at the University of Ottawa, where taxes emerged as the sharpest dividing line. Advance voting opens Oct 16, with election day on Oct 26.
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