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The Defence Department’s move into what is being dubbed Pentagon North has been delayed again.

The first major wave of Canadian Forces and Department of National Defence staff was supposed to move into the former Nortel Campus in the west end of Ottawa starting in September but that won’t happen until November.

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It is yet another delay for the project. The move was originally to take place in January 2014 but that was pushed back until the end of 2015. That, in turn, was delayed to September 2016 and now to Nov. 4.

There are currently a small number of DND employees and Canadian military personnel at the Nortel site.

The DND declined to give reasons for the delay, the number of employees scheduled to move, or the number of workers now at the site. It referred questions to Public Services and Procurement Canada.

Public Services and Procurement Canada could not provide comment. But documents leaked to Postmedia point out that that by 2020 about 8,500 federal workers and military personnel will be working from the campus on Carling Avenue.