Ottawa calling

The article below has given me hope that Ottawa will become a magnet for muzzies rather than Toronto ... very soon.  Thank God for small mercies!

Let's hope I am right and that  it will become the "go to" city for the Muslim immigrants making a beeline to Toronto when they arrive in Canada.  We, in Toronto, need some respite from immigrant weariness we are burdened with by our extremely  foolish government.   I am so fed up of hearing Arabic spoken here, there, everywhere in Toronto.  Go to Sears (any location in Toronto) Arabic yakety yak yak,  go to Canadian Tire (any location in Toronto) Arabic yakety yak yak,  go to any mall in Toronto,  Arabic yakety yak yak,  go to any of the main grocery chains, Arabic yakety yak yak.  Arabic yakety yak yak has taken over the Chinese yakety yak yak all over.  We are drowning in strange languages and it's getting harder and harder to hear English spoken in the streets of Toronto.

From OttawaLife:
....Downtown Ottawa is undergoing an architectural renaissance. Unsightly parking lots are gradually being replaced by gleaming condos and office towers.

Ottawa Life Magazine spoke to city councillor Diane Holmes, who represents Ward 14 Somerset. “When I first was elected in ’82, I thought I’d never see people from the suburbs wanting to come downtown again. We fought for 25 years to maintain the inner-city residential neighborhoods, keep them viable, keep the schools, maintain some traffic calming on the streets so kids can walk to schools, so people can have a pleasant pedestrian walkway… and over the years, people have started to come back downtown. The 60s and 70s were so destructive of our downtown.

“My main concern is the federal government leaving the downtown. If DND (Department of National Defence) empties and moves to Kanata, what will be done with DND headquarters? We are spending a billion dollars building a light rail system to bring commuters downtown. We want to keep downtown Ottawa as a main office site. My concern is more that the federal government is not considering the downtown as a prime federal district that they should be investing in and maintaining an office component in.

“Losing significant office component downtown would be a really negative factor. That billion-dollar investment in light rail is terrific for Centretown.

Having said that, Holmes notes that “the federal government keeps wanting to build the cheapest and ugliest office space – glass boxes and cement blocks. So they are the ones that go for the low bid all the time.” Esplanade Laurier looks like a bombed-out eyesore. Public Works (which now owns the twin-towered complex ) is trying to decide what to do with the building, which takes up an entire city block and has been very badly maintained.

However, the coming LRT will do much to rejuvenate downtown Ottawa. “When the LRT comes along, we can reinstate Albert and Slater,” Holmes says. “With fewer Transitway buses, these streets can become more pedestrian-friendly, with trees and outdoor cafes. At the moment, Albert and Slater are so unattractive! So spumy and dark and treeless. The Transitway was great for moving people but there was no idea of urban design, no idea of anything than to get those buses through those downtown corridors as quickly as possible...........