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There are days when Ottawa looks like a grown-up city (koo-koo ka-choo LRT!) and others when we appear to have lost our minds.

How, to the matter at hand, did we propose to put 9,300 National Defence employees in a relatively remote location in west-end Ottawa without any sensible plan as to how they were supposed to get to work every day?

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According to the last census, this is more workers than people living in Arnprior or Renfrew — a small town we’re daily plopping at the corner of Carling Avenue and Moodie Drive. (Except that the town flees every night, possibly screaming.)

And, somehow, there is an onus on the employer — the Canadian taxpayer — to provide everyone with a parking spot, at a modest price?

You know, we just had a large demonstration in Ottawa, in cities around the world, about how we’re killing ourselves by recklessly burning fossil fuels — climate emergency, city council declared in April, and they’re never wrong! — and we turn around and do this? Did we not also just spend $2.1 billion on a train system to move people around, on electrical power, and approve a second phase at $4.6 billion?