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If there was one thing everyone remembers from the much-hyped Canada Day on Parliament Hill last year, it was the lineups.
As rain drenched the city, so grew the lineups: long chains of poncho-ed partygoers, snaking through downtown as thousands of people waited to get on the Hill to celebrate the country’s sesquicentennial birthday.
Hundreds of citizens wrote letters (some of them very angry) to Heritage Canada about the lineups; complaints poured in on social media all day long; former mayor of Ottawa Jim Durrell called it “an unmitigated disaster” and a win for the terrorists.
“Canada Day was terrorists one, rank and file Canadians zero,” he told the police services board last July.
Not this year, says Heritage Canada. Organizers went back to the drawing board after the imbroglio they found themselves in last year, and believe that this year’s solution — though it’s not at all clear what that is, beyond moving the entrance — will make the lineup process move far quicker than last year.
“As a result of feedback received following the 2017 event, the Department of Canadian Heritage and Parliamentary Protective Services will be implementing numerous changes,” said Natalie Huneault, spokeswoman for Heritage Canada.
Heritage Canada said it has “redesigned the queue line and will have the public access Parliament Hill at one main entrance,” ostensibly in order to cut down on people being in the wrong line — something that was a problem in 2017. That entrance will be located near the Supreme Court lawn, at the west end of Parliament Hill.
“The main entrance queue line will be able to accommodate several thousand visitors.”
They’ve also beefed up a bit on staff and signage.
“Comprehensive wayfinding signage, message boards, additional crowd stewards and trained information officers deployed in the downtown core, complemented by information updates and advisories, will provide the public with clear indications on how to access the Parliament Hill and the other official sites,” said Huneault.
Heritage Canada is asking the public to do their part, too, by packing light and not bringing anything that security is likely to take away.
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As rain drenched the city, so grew the lineups: long chains of poncho-ed partygoers, snaking through downtown as thousands of people waited to get on the Hill to celebrate the country’s sesquicentennial birthday.
Hundreds of citizens wrote letters (some of them very angry) to Heritage Canada about the lineups; complaints poured in on social media all day long; former mayor of Ottawa Jim Durrell called it “an unmitigated disaster” and a win for the terrorists.
“Canada Day was terrorists one, rank and file Canadians zero,” he told the police services board last July.
Not this year, says Heritage Canada. Organizers went back to the drawing board after the imbroglio they found themselves in last year, and believe that this year’s solution — though it’s not at all clear what that is, beyond moving the entrance — will make the lineup process move far quicker than last year.
“As a result of feedback received following the 2017 event, the Department of Canadian Heritage and Parliamentary Protective Services will be implementing numerous changes,” said Natalie Huneault, spokeswoman for Heritage Canada.
Heritage Canada said it has “redesigned the queue line and will have the public access Parliament Hill at one main entrance,” ostensibly in order to cut down on people being in the wrong line — something that was a problem in 2017. That entrance will be located near the Supreme Court lawn, at the west end of Parliament Hill.
“The main entrance queue line will be able to accommodate several thousand visitors.”
They’ve also beefed up a bit on staff and signage.
“Comprehensive wayfinding signage, message boards, additional crowd stewards and trained information officers deployed in the downtown core, complemented by information updates and advisories, will provide the public with clear indications on how to access the Parliament Hill and the other official sites,” said Huneault.
Heritage Canada is asking the public to do their part, too, by packing light and not bringing anything that security is likely to take away.
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