Analysis: Revenue could be volatile heading into Ottawa's 2019 city budget

The City of Ottawa will table its draft 2019 budget on Wednesday with questions about the municipality’s exposure to volatile revenue streams, especially under a belt-tightening provincial government.
The city is poised to go to the property taxpayer for even more money in 2019 through the annual tax increase. Council has called for a budget with tax-supported spending increases capped at three per cent.
But the wild card of Ottawa’s municipal budget is out of city hall’s contr