Somerset City Council member Ariel Troster said she is "heartbroken" after finding a man who had been sleeping in the streets of downtown Ottawa dead from the extreme cold on Monday.

Ottawa police said they received a call about a person in critical condition near Elgin Street and Cooper Street at around 4:30 AM. Paramedics confirmed they found a man in his forties in cardiac arrest, and he was taken to the hospital in a life-threatening condition.

The police later confirmed that he died in the hospital. Troster stated in a social media post that the man died due to the extreme cold, as temperatures on Monday night dropped to -17 degrees Celsius with a wind chill feeling like -24 degrees Celsius.

She added, "My heart is broken upon learning that a man died from the cold yesterday morning on Elgin Street. This is the very situation that the city has been working hard to prevent, but this failure is a failure for all of us."

She emphasized that "ending homelessness is our most urgent crisis. I will continue to push the city and all levels of government to achieve this. The solution is housing, with support when needed. That is the solution."