National Defence HQ (Carling) | 60 Moodie Drive [former Nortel campus]

[phil235]

I think that while you make some good points, in particular that article sounds like pretty run of the mill public servant griping. Complaints about paying $75 for a non-guaranteed parking spot are not going to elicit a lot of sympathy in the wider world, public sector or private sector. Also, if the cost of living in Ottawa is a national security issue, then we can't post military people in pretty much any major city in Canada, let alone Toronto or Vancouver.

And I'm not convinced that people are universally preferring to be posted elsewhere. I know lots of members of the service who have Ottawa at the top of their list of postings and have done everything in their power to stay here. Not one of them listed parking as a significant factor in their decision-making process.

I'd also note that you only reference military members, when a big portion of the staff at Carling is civilian, and they aren't being posted anywhere.