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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 10

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Doug Saunders

    Worth thinking about how a lot of American state capitols and even DC itself (which in terms of the actual city is smaller than Ottawa) are small enough that tiny truck convoy could do a lot of damage.https://twitter.com/DougSaunders/status/1491777383531220993 …

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    Underlying lesson from Canada this month: Don't make a small city the capital of your country. That role requires the resources of a large one
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      1. billiecat‏ @billiecat Feb 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Heck, they're doing damage in Michigan and they aren't even in our capitol.

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      2. ReasonableMindDiffering‏ @RDiffering Feb 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I mean, Ottawa's the fifth biggest city in the country....

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      3. Stephen Geigen-Miller‏ @Stephen_GM Feb 10
        Replying to @RDiffering @HeerJeet

        Yeah, but a lot of that is the metro/census area - which includes the suburbs. Ottawa itself is not very big.

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      1. Vetarnias‏ @Vetarnias Feb 10
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        It should at the very least have its own territory independent from the whims of a premier more interested in catering to his supporters around a metropolis located hundreds of kilometres away.

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      1. jack‏ @jackalltogether Feb 10
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        there’s a reason they widened the streets of Paris after 48

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      2. Jim Shilander‏ @jimmyshi03 Feb 10
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        What about going the opposite way? Make the capital remote, like Conception Bay or Whitehorse

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      3. Vetarnias‏ @Vetarnias Feb 10
        Replying to @jimmyshi03 @HeerJeet

        We did move it, after all, when the mob burned the Montreal parliament to the ground.

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      1. John Firth  🇨🇦‏ @johncfirth Feb 10
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        Almost all state capitols are not the major centre. It’s a feature, not a bug.

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      1. Edge‏ @czarbucks Feb 10
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        Growing up and working in the DC area, I always thought about how vulnerable the city is to a concerted effort just on the bridges of the beltway, plus whatever they would try downtown. Nothing could move.

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      1. MichaelGemar‏ @MichaelGemar Feb 10
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        Counterpoint: it wouldn’t take much to screw up access to Manhattan.

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