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He’s asking Ottawans to come out for a picnic from 6:30 p.m. to sunset Saturday at Major’s Hill Park, Green told Solomon, adding that “I want to create a time and a place for people to express their concern and their love for the city.”

(He mentioned in the interview that participants should bring their own food and refreshments.)

He’ll share his thoughts on the project on social media and is asking others to do the same.

“I just think that there’s a lot of power today in social media,” he said. “If enough people start to get informed about exactly how this is going to impact the view of our beautiful city, maybe, if there’s enough outcry, maybe people will consider looking at the design again.

“I don’t think that’s fair to the citizens of this city.”

Since city council refused to pull Larco Investment’s heritage permit for the project earlier this month, the $100-million project could get underway later this year.

But Green, who shared images created by Ottawa architect Barry Podolsky showing how the addition will look from the park, argued that the developer has used renderings that minimize its visual impact on the area so often photographed to promote tourism and the country itself.

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Green got his start in Ottawa with an eponymous show on the local Rogers station that was picked up by the Comedy Network and then MTV.

That’s when he moved to Los Angeles where he starred in movies including Freddy Got Fingered, married and divorced Drew Barrymore and has a host of comedy projects and a tour on the go.

“People have said to me, ‘why do you care about this? You don’t live here’,” Green told Solomon.

“I have lived here actually for most of the last 20 years, I’ve had a home here, my family is here and I do plan on living here again.

“Whenever I come to Ottawa, I always go there. I care about this part of the city.”

And it’s a place that he brings his friends from the US — where “nobody knows where Ottawa is” — who say “it looks like Europe here” when they see the view Green marvelled at as a teen.

“They’re always amazed and surprised and I don’t want to do anything to damage it,” Green said Solomon.

“Covering it up — it just becomes like everywhere else. ”

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