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If there’s one thing Jenna Sudds wants city hall to know, it’s how important Kanata’s technology industry is to the economic health of the City of Ottawa.

Expect to hear a lot about the booming business sector in Kanata North from the incoming councillor as she lays the tracks to get LRT to the western suburb far sooner than what’s currently projected in the city’s transportation plans.

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“From a road-infrastructure perspective, we have unfortunately the morning and the afternoon rush hour that is impeding people’s quality of life,” Sudds said in an interview before she takes over as Kanata North ward councillor on Dec. 1.

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“One solution is around better public transit. The employers in Kanata North, some of whom are the largest employers in our city, continually express concern that people are not accepting jobs within their companies because they can’t get there. The public transit routes are so horrible that people unfortunately turn down job offers.”