good evening we begin tonight with breaking news and Ottawa city councelor Matthew luloff who represents Orleans East Cumberland has been charged with impaired driving cdv's Austin Lee Joins us now with the details Austin yeah Patricia there are still some unknowns here it's not clear exactly where this happened but his lawyer tells us that Matthew luloff was charged with impaired driving about two weeks ago Orleans East Cumberland counselor Matthew luloff has been charged with impaired dve CTV News reached out to luloff directly but we were redirected to his lawyer Lawrence greenspa who in a statement said there was no accident involved we will be defending Mr luloff on the charge and he is to be Presumed Innocent luloff was first elected as a city councelor in 2018 beating out 16 candidates who had been vying for the role he won again in 20122 in a landslide win bringing in nearly 75% of votes last November the Conservative Party of Canada announced luloff would be the candidate for the Orleans riding in the next federal election but a spokesperson for the party says he resigned his candidacy on July 10th due to a personal matter an Ottawa native luloff was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces between 2003 and 2009 with Princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry serving in Afghanistan in 2008 he also served in the governor General's foot guards he's now set to appear in court on August 8 8 now the charge obviously has not been proven in court and as mentioned moments ago Lula's lawyer says that he plans to defend the city counselor Patricia ctv's Austin Lee live for us tonight thank you