Neil Saravanamuttoo

He held senior roles at the Department of Finance Canada and the G20's Global Infrastructure Hub, and co-founded the non-profit CitySHAPES with former councillor Catherine McKenney. He is a registered candidate for Mayor of Ottawa in the municipal election of 26 October 2026.

Career

Saravanamuttoo is an economist who worked in senior positions at the Department of Finance Canada and at the G20's Global Infrastructure Hub before moving to municipal work. He was economic adviser to Catherine McKenney's 2022 mayoral campaign and afterwards co-founded CitySHAPES, a non-profit on housing, homelessness, transport, climate and municipal governance. He runs city hall advocacy workshops and developed BuildingIN, a framework for sustainable intensification. He received Apartment 613's Awesome Ottawa Award in 2021 for parkway advocacy.

Positions

His campaign slogan is "A Better Ottawa. By Us. For Us." Profiles describe his focus as housing, transit, climate action, cycling, fiscal responsibility and intensification over sprawl. He proposes turning Queen Elizabeth Driveway into a national urban park and launched a petition for a binding referendum on Lansdowne 2.0 funding. His platform stresses transparency at city hall, a homelessness and public-safety plan including city-wide ANCHOR expansion, and a new fiscal deal giving cities a larger share of tax revenue.

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