[mitthrowaway2]

Agreed. IMO, the government should strategically move government offices to smaller towns, to both encourage those towns to grow while freeing up space in bigger cities for private enterprise. Historically, many small towns have grown into cities this way. For example Denver, and of course Ottawa.

[walrus01]

They kind of already did this, for a long time the firearms registry was in a random town in New Brunswick and a huge IRCC immigration case processing centre was in Vegreville, AB.