Eggertson: Ottawa council shouldn't waste time changing committee name

The City of Ottawa will consider renaming one of its standing committees of council … again.
Four years ago, the Environment Committee was renamed Environment and Climate Protection Committee (ECPC) to boost the city’s profile on climate action and to mimic a similar name change by the new federal government. Although this semantic tweaking may have contributed to a sharper focus on carbon reduction at the local level, I expressed my concern at the time that changing a name just to