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Old Posted Oct 3, 2016, 2:43 AM
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Originally Posted by 1overcosc View Post
The federal government has officially abandoned any efforts at creating more employment nodes than the ones that already planned (there is one more planned that does not yet exist, on Tremblay Rd across the 417 from St. Laurent station), and changing that would require a revisit of plans, so we're unlikely to see anything in Orleans. With all the evidence now out about how downtown locations attract better talent, the government is going to be very cautious about decentralizing their workforce any further.

The DND arrangement is well done, IMO. Many of the less security-critical positions are remaining in the core, while the rest are consolidated to a securable location. This is contrast with the RCMP where the entire department was moved out to the Greenbelt when a bunch of them could have remained...
More than a bunch of them have indeed remained... enough to continue to occupy the entire RCMP HQ complex at the Vanier Pkwy & Coventry, as well as a satellite building at Vanier Pkwy & McArthur.
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