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Originally Posted by Acajack
E.g. "those people" shouldn't be working here anyway, so if they're inconvenienced in their commute it's not a big deal...
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Those same people would be pissed if the "those people" jobs got moved out of Jean Edmonds or Place de Ville or Esplanade Laurier and moved to Promenade du Portage or some office park in Gatineau.
Per the last census, over 45,000 people in Gatineau commute to work in another province. Setting aside maybe a tiny handful who fly in and out of northern Alberta or Baffin Island every couple of weeks, that's 45,000 people who are often also eating lunches in Ottawa cafeterias and restaurants, popping out to run an errand or two in an Ottawa retail establishment, etc., etc.
Ottawa, and its residents, have an economic self-interest in making it as easy as possible for them to get across the river, and, at the end of the day, stay on the Ottawa side of the river knowing that it'll be easy and convenient to get home again.
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