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Ottawa City Council today voted unanimously to rename Trump Avenue, a residential street named more than 20 years ago. <\/p>\n
The street is a part of an Ottawa neighbourhood called Central Park, which is filled with New York-themed names such as Staten Way, Bloomingdale Street and Grammercy Park. The U.S. President was basically a Manhattan novelty act when the streets were first set out in the subdivision.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed that in the nation\u2019s capital we have Donald Trump honoured in this respect,\u201d Riley Brockington, the city councillor whose ward contains the street, told council when he initially brought up the rebranding idea in the heat of the trade war between Canada and the U.S. <\/p>\n
Now that the motion has passed, the councillor said he\u2019ll form a working group with a handful of residents to come up with new potential names to put to a vote.<\/p>\n
Mr. Brockington said no other street in his ward generates anything near the \u201cconstant\u201d volume of complaints that Trump Avenue does. This is the second attempt to change the street\u2019s name, after a 2021 effort that was strategic in its timing, the councillor said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, I don\u2019t want to do anything while he\u2019s in office because I feared retribution \u2013 honest to goodness\u201d he said. \u201cSo he came out of office January \u201921, and that\u2019s when I did the outreach.\u201d <\/p>\n
That process failed to get two-thirds of the residents of the street to vote in favour of the change. Mr. Brockington suspects that those who voted no at the time didn\u2019t necessarily like the original name \u2013 they just didn\u2019t want to be bothered changing their addresses. <\/p>\n
Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n A street sign for Trump Avenue in Ottawa.Patrick Doyle\/Reuters<\/p>\n This is the daily Politics Insider newsletter, curated by Ian Bailey<\/a>. It is available exclusively to our digital subscribers. 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