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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
The federal government's job is to deliver services for Canadians. Being Ottawa's sponsor is not its main gig. Worse, Ottawa makes nonsensical choices that makes life hard for federal employees. The solution shouldn't be to throw more good money at a city unwilling to fix the problem.
Let's be clear. A lot of the issues with transit here are a result of deliberate underfunding and city mismanagement. The city wants low taxes and a car centric lifestyle. That's a choice. The federal government doesn't want stressed out employees taking an hour to get to work. Both sides can get what they want when the employees are moved out of the NCR.
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Agreed that the federal government job does not include being loyal to the city of Ottawa, and it should move FULL department out of Ottawa when it makes sense.
Full remote work outside of specific jobs is a bad idea, but that said, fully back in the office is a bad idea as well. Especially when management is terrible at theret job, and from the outside that seems to be the biggest problem with the feds.
But let's be clear here, the city of Ottawa by large are federal gov workers, the state of this city is how federal gov workers want it. They want suburban living, car centric sprawl, with transit just for getting them from the front door to work & not anything more. (See lrt friend)
The number of staffers I've argued with about the increasing density of centretown/westboro & inner greenbelt is too many.
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