MacDonald: Ottawa City Hall's new security measures lack common sense | Unpublished
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Author: Christina Spencer, Ottawa Citizen
Publication Date: June 4, 2025 - 11:00

MacDonald: Ottawa City Hall's new security measures lack common sense

June 4, 2025
As a university student back in the 1980s, I worked for a local Ottawa company that produced calendars for the tourist market. On one occasion, I was sent out to make a delivery to the parliamentary gift shop. Much to my surprise, this involved simply driving onto Parliament Hill and parking, unloading my hand cart and boxes, telling a commissionaire what I was there for and being given instructions on how to find my way through the underground corridors to the shop warehouse. No gates to drive through. No metal detectors. No escort. Read More


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