We heard from Minister Tassi, who came before this committee. She talked about block 2. She said that 50% of parliamentarians in the future will actually work south of Wellington.
We also heard from Senator Vernon White, who is a former Ottawa police chief, and another former Ottawa police chief, Peter Sloly, who said in his opening remarks: “First is crime prevention through environmental design. Consider changes to the parliamentary precinct's physical environment, including the boundaries, to improve security.”
What I want to double-check here is that in order to optimize security, does it make sense to have a major arterial road, with cars running along it all day long, through the middle of the future parliamentary precinct?