Workin’ 9 to 5, that’s no way to make a livin’
Sending public servants into action to save a city from decades of bad urban planning is like dispatching the military to fill sandbags, or respond to the latest climate emergency—but with far less tangible benefit. It is no way to save a city, and no way to run a government.
CHELSEA, QUE.—The stereotypical “Ottawa” bureaucrat arouses as much sympathy with the public at large as a billionaire grocery exec whose yacht gets stuck on a sandbar in some tropical tax haven. Less, perhaps.
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