“They have to get people back to work,” Premier Doug Ford said during a press conference on Thursday in Ottawa, standing next to Mayor Mark Sutcliffe.
“It sounds crazy. I’m begging people to go to work for three days — not that they aren’t working at home, but it really affects the downtown.”
In order to make the property values of a downtown rise, they must first be a necessary destination, and that’s where all the back to office bullshit comes from, they don’t want to put public funds towards this, affordable rents, public spaces, etc. they want it to grow value organically by forcing people to have to go there in the first place, you see