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According to officialdom, and our charter, there can be no institution of "national culture" only "the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians."

Therfore, I suggest a post-modernist pile of rubble that our dear elites can wax lyrical upon before having gay sex. Syringes and condums supplied gratis the people of Ottawa.

This is very, very unfortunate, that the government paperweights will come up with way to spend our money and there is not a damned thing any of us can do about it, the politicians will just go along with it, because the optics are good. It is frustrating. What to do?

Judge Gomery mentioned something about a "culture of corruption" extant in Canada. So, why not a museum dedicated to all the politicians at every level who've been found out, a "Hall of Shame".

dmorris,

The site isn't big enough to house such a facility.

How about a 500 foot high statue of Trudeau taking a whiz on his adoring subjects? Or maybe one of a regular Canadian wiping his ass with the beloved Charter. Too scatalogical?

I think we need an institution that celebrates Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Saccharomyces Uvarum, various Lactococci and Lactobacilli, Propionibacter Shermani, Brevibacterium Linens, Penicillium Candida, Penicillium Roqueforti, and other similarly useful cultures.

Being an Irish immigrant, may i suggest some place you can grab a pint of Guiness in the morning.
Barring that,Hunting&Fishing.

Guiness would be Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, culturally speaking.

Let's be serious, folks. We desperately need a National Museum of the Canoe. Oh, wait! I guess Chretien's constituency already has that one.

What's not serious about bread, beer, wine, and cheese? Why, I could live off them, with a little protein from the occasional small dead animal. We need an institution to celebrate the culture of living. Unfortunately, it appears that we now only create institutions to celebrate the culture of disagreeing. I find that less than optimal.

Vitruvius.
What if i'm just thirsty and have a gun?
Would that be Janfinich,culturally speaking?
My bad,i know.

I Googled Janfinich and got zilch. Am I missing a joke?

No joke missed,just bad humor on my part.
Jane/Finch

Ah, well then, There, I'd give you a glass of water. Or was a small-scale short-term lack of water not your point? Did you mean to say, what if I aim a gun at you? Is this about abuse-of-gun culture? Because if so, I'll let Jackie Mason speak for me, since my going on about it would be off topic:

video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2774037460997024135

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the topic here is what sort of cultural institution you want, not what kind of cultural institution you don't want. I want one that celebrates bread, beer, wine, cheese, the occasional small dead animal, the sublime beauty of engineered foods, and the evolution of civilization that has allowed us to get here, not one that celebrates whining about metaphysical trivialities.

"Syringes and condums supplied gratis the people of Ottawa."

Don't forget that the city of Ottawa also hands out free crack-pipe kits.

How about a Taxpayers Museum ?

Exhibits would feature past government programs that were a complete waste of the taxpayers money.

Special emphasis would be placed on initiatives that had the opposite result of their intended purpose, and on programs that live on - long after their intended purpose had been met or forgotten.

How about a giant teat complete with bungee cord to help ween Maritimers and other such socialists from the public purse.

Sheeessshhhh....let's get it over with now...a big mosque to rival the golden temple. That's the only thing that the leftards want,so why waste time on a poll/plebicite/public hearings?

How about a museum of gratitude to our American neighbors for all the money we make selling our stuff to them.

Also to thank them for being good neighbors and providing with a safe place to be socialist pigs.

Great minds think alike, my first choice, 42% for Hunting and Fishing, and my second choice, Curling is at 19%. We really do need a frozen caveman museum.

Nothing says museum like a forgotten entity. I say 'National Married White Guy with a Job' museum. Not many of us left.

Oh, and I want a parade too.

Vitruvius,

What of the noble sausage? I agree with your other choices ... but a little diversity please.

Sausage sounds good to me - particularly something like calabrese and/or hot hungarian. That, along with some brie cheese, should easily satisfy the liberals demands for a multicultural element to these multiple cultures.

I'd like to see a memorial to the extinction of the modern liberal!

The earliest known reference to sausage dates to Greece in the eighth or ninth century B.C.E. It appears in Homer's Odyssey (XX: 24-27), where Odysseus, lying in his bed, is seen

rolling from side to side
as a cook turns a sausage, big with blood
and fat, at a scorching blaze, without a pause,
to broil it quick

I voted for Hunting and Fishing. Hands down favorite.

Besides, if it's a govt. handout, it may as well be free ammunition.

Beer Store.

How about a good old-fashioned park with a large Bois-de-Boulogne- or Serpentine-style pond and fountain?

Put in tree-lined walks and a place for kids to run around and have fun. Throw in busts of various historical figues here and there.

Tunney's is far enough away from the street missions and the Byward Market to deter the usual annoying panhandlers and vagrants you inevitably have to pick your way through in what passes for "downtown" Ottawa.

As an extra, ironical touch, why not statues of Generals Montcalm and Wolfe side-by-each with a single inscription from a Robert Charlebois song?

"TOUT ÇA A COMMENÇÉ SUR LES PLAINES D'ABRAHAM"

Ha ha!

Too old-fashioned, I guess. So - coming up, a Disabled-Lesbian-Wymyn-of-Colour Cultural Centre...

Port-a-potty Museum. For all the shit that's shoveled around Ottawa on a daily basis. They must be running out of room to put it all.

Historical and practical.

A TIM HORTONS- culturally significant and wont cost the taxpayer.

the national capital commission has so much money they number the trees with little brass plates.Im not making this up. the snivel servants continue to decorate with your money.

I like the idea about showcasing government waste. We can start with a display featuring greenhouse grown cucumbers, then as you walk down the aisle, we can have a wax statue of librano Jane forking out a billion or so to moonbats, vis-a-vis the HRDC boondoggle. As you round the corner, we can have numerous canoes displayed(in honor or cretin). As you head down the hall, you will encounter a bombardion Iltis with a few soldiers missing their legs. Just beyond that, lets have a Sea King nose down, simulating one of their many crashes. Oh ya, I can see it now.

I'm with Brian on this one. 'National Married White Guy with a Job' museum would certainly attract a lot of visitors. Other than that, maybe a Bob & Doug McKenzie Museum.

Kingstonlad, they have the Iltis you suggest in the War Museum already. No kidding. Iltis is in UN colours, all shot to s--t as a memorial to some guys what got whacked in an ambush. The whole place is like that. One long Liberal Party whinge.

I vote we stick an alternative War Museum across the street. One that honors the proud history of Canadian soldiers and their many victories. Hell, we might even show off some of the captured trophies they have stored away in Ottawa warehouses. Our guys died for 'em, maybe we should at least get to see the damn things.

OK, how about a museum to celebrate all of our expatriate doctors, nurses, educators, engineers entertainers, etc, etc - you know, the ones living 'down there' in the great Satan US of A. Would our leftie politicos go for that idea?