I am Groot

I feel it's wrong for anyone whose body is male to be allowed to participate in women sports as anything other than a coach.

I think you live in another Ottawa from the one I've lived in for so many decades. And I don't know what kind of 'crown projects' you've been involved in, but I worked as a public servant for a lot of years, and still have a lot of friends there, one of whom is a senior director and another who works in the office of an assistant deputy minister. Your view of how the government and public service interact is straight from a manual. But it ignores human reality. The primary motivation of almost all senior management is to curry favour and please the next two levels above them. And they will do damn near anything to do that. If someone displeases the PMO, never mind the PM, their career is dead. Even at the deputy minister rank. You can find yourself moved to some crappy little department nobody wants anything to do with and left to rust. So you can be sure if the PMO makes its wishes known, they're carried out. Yes, indeed, the NCC directors are appointed by the governor in council, which essentially means cabinet. If you think the process is non-partisan you probably think the process to appoint senators is non-partisan too. Public servants make policies all the time, and develop processes for carrying out a wide variety of organizational objectives. They also make rules too.

Lot of nonsense in what you wrote above. Try firing a servant? Seen it done. Oh, of course the PMO doesn't fire them! The DM has a word with the people above them and makes the PMOs wishes known. The offender finds their job eliminated. If they're senior, it gets removed in a reorg, if not, the responsibilities get transferred to others. They get pushed into doing a long, pointless 'study' which will require periodic reports be made. And managers and above have no union, btw. There are a hundred ways to fire or persuade an employee to quit. Deputy ministers don't have to override NCC decisions. Those on the NCC board are government appointees. They are informed privately that their hopes of being reappointed or getting any other appointment with the party EVER will disappear if they don't do as they're told. As for procedure and policy. Those are written by bureaucrats and can always be overridden by politicians. if there are actual laws involved, well, there are almost always ways around that. Or the law can simply be altered. Harper never gave the go-ahead for substantial renovations. Neither did Chretien. And Trudeau has been hiding behind his sofa wringing his hands and biting his nails for eight years terrified someone will insist he make a decision.

Almost all the homeless are addicts, mentally ill, or both. If you keep them out of your study your study is essentially useless.

Another example of how the fanatics of the trans movement attack and silence anyone who dares to express doubt about the wisdom of their crusade to change children's genders. https://unherd.com/thepost/in-defence-of-roisin-murphy/

You guys should realize by now that when some 'study' seems to contradict what you know of human nature it's probably nonsense. And this study was nonsense. Fake science. The people who did it screened out almost everyone who was homeless, including drug addicts and alcoholics, as well as the mentally ill and long term homeless. Of those they chose half disappeared without a trace. Of those they kept track of half refused to fill out any of the follup survey questions. It's junk science. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-ubc-covers-for-bad-science-in-homeless-cash-transfer-study

Sure. A public servant can say no. Then he can pack up his desk (assuming he still has one) and wait for his transfer to a different position where he'll be given a desk, a PC and no work to do until he realizes his career is over and quits. The PMO appoints all deputy ministers now. You know this, yes? Every senior exec, every manager lives with the fear that something they do will come to the attention of the media and result in questions in the House. And they will do anything they can do prevent that lest the government decide to take out their unhappiness on them. There is no job security in the public service if you anger the PMO. To think otherwise is painfully naive. I've been at meetings where managers expressed the anxious reaction of their bosses, the directors and DGs at an unhappy ministers office, let alone the PMO. the PMO and the PM MAKE the rules, okay. Anyone who works fo the government who challenges that soon won't be working for the government.

So it turns out 90% of 'trans' people aren't much interested in changing their gender after all - at least not physically. That little nugget of info dropped into this story about a trans 'woman' cricketer chosen to be on Canada's national team. https://unherd.com/thepost/why-isnt-canadas-trans-cricketer-more-embarrassed/

Noticeably?

If we spend two trillion dollars on this, which is what the Royal bank says it will cost, we will be a much poorer society without the wherewithal to put in place the expensive remediation infrastructure needed to deal with climate change. Meanwhile, the developing world, which contributes 68% of CO2 emissions, and which will be the main losers of a warming globe, are building coal plants as frantically as they can. If he was there by himself because no one else was willing to invade with him? Yes. Did these 'experts' say that if Canada spent two trillion to get to net zero it would have any appreciable impact on global warming?

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I don't know if you understand how government works in Ottawa, but I promise you if the PM had told the NCC to do something they'd have done it. The PM is basically all-powerful and mandarins leap to obey. Their jobs depend on it. If he had ordered it torn down and a new one built it would have been done by now.

The guy cares so much about a historic old building he wants to built some kind of Danish modern Ikea version right next to it? No way. I don't mind the idea of an addition, even a separate building. But it has to be a lot more like the current one. Yeah, I tend to agree with him. It's a five-acre site. If you think the home is too close to the road then move it further in and change the wrought iron fence for a high wall so no one can see inside. Kind of hard to aim anything then. And I have no idea where they think they're going to find five acres anywhere near Parliament Hill. No, that's bullshit. Political cowardice has let this house become a shambles. Trudeau is just the latest and biggest political coward of the lot. But Harper wasn't a lot better, nor was Chretien nor Mulroney. They were all too afraid of being criticized for putting government money into a GOVERNMENT HOUSE that they happened to be living in temporarily.

What? The sullen, dull-eyed plebes chewing their cud and waiting for the government to pour more slops into their buckets? I should think not!

Can't work. The reason why they say the existing location is inadequate is security. They say it's too small and people on the sidewalk and road can get too close to the house. Yet that's a five-acre site. There are very, very few larger sites anywhere near Parliament Hill unless you take parkland away. Which, as you might imagine, would not go over well. Or move it to Gatineau, which would go over even less well. Besides, having to cross a long bridge every day is not exactly 'secure'.

It's a gorgeous location. So build a similar house there. And by 'house' I mean 'mansion' all updated and everything and then let that be the governor general's home. Meanwhile, the PM can move across the street to Rideau Hall, which is a big, rambling place with high fences where you can put lots of employees, have formal visitors, meetings, receptions and dinners, and be secure from crazed terrorists.

Modest? As opposition leader PP lives in a 10,000 square foot mansion in Rockliffe Park. Unless he's suggesting the PMs place should be smaller 'modest' is just not the word for it.

Funny thing is you could probably say all that about Canada, too, thanks to Justin Trudeau.

AI could have done this better. Just tell it to spout some cliche's you'd find if a snotty, not very bright adolescent leftist activist wanted to try to put someone down. I mean, everything you say is just so horribly banal and yet I'm sure you imagine yourself to be quite edgy.

Crime is worse. There is a lot more random attacks against completely innocent people. This, and the growing numbers of homeless addicts in street camps is serving to damage people's quality of life all on its own because they don't feel safe and they worry about their kids being out of their sight. I'm hearing and reading things I never did before. Pleas from people on local, provincial and national forums about being unable to afford the rent, about not able to afford groceries. There is a bitterness, a really deep bitterness that seems to be coming out a lot more now than ever before directed at all levels of government but mostly federal (and in Ontario at Ford). And not just government but older people, boomers who it is presumed have their comfortable homes already and most of them mostly paid for, and so benefiting from rising housing costs. Also hatred of landlords and grocers. Also a deep bitterness at the number of immigrants and at the foreign students and workers people know are being brought in largely to suppress wages - their wages. And despite what the government says nearly everyone now blames this huge spike of foreigners on immigration - on Trudeau and his party. Five years ago almost no one argued against immigration. Now almost everyone does, even those on the Left. I don't need statistics to know our quality of life has deteriorated.

Peterson's statements about transgenderism are exactly the things he was taught and the books taught and that the College of Psychologists accepted as reality up until about five years ago. Suddenly, with little in the way of evidence, they changed it around after some woke people got elected to head the college. You must surely realize by now you're addressing someone for whom transgenderism is almost holy Kant.

I'm honestly tired of hearing about gay this and gay that. Gay pride this, gay parade that, gay rights and gay parties and gay stories of gay people doing gay things. LIke, seriously, just shut the f*ck up about it already. Nobody cares. The media is freaking obsessed.

If you refuse you're considered a wicked transphobe by the 'woke'. Lesbians who refuse to have sex with men who claim to be transgender lesbians are called TERFs, and cast out of the holy church of identity wokeness.