Writes itself, doesn't it:
Since the spring, the National Capital Commission has been receiving an unusually high number of complaints about rats in Confederation Park, a small patch of green space that faces city hall and lies next to the famed Rideau Canal.
There have been so many rat sightings that the commission has hired pest-control professionals to set poison-filled traps for the skinny-tailed pests.
On a more serious note, this rodent fecundity might have Green origins:
Perhaps the mild winter, which was followed by an early spring, was conducive to breeding. Perhaps an unusually large amount of construction in the downtown core has driven the critters into the parks. Or perhaps Ottawa’s new green-box recycling program has provided enough compost to keep the rats fat and happy.
Yet one of the reasons for having government garbage collection, statists of different generation advised, was that it helped keep down the rat population. But that was another time, when even the statists valued economic progress and human betterment.
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