It’s a worn trope that Ottawa is boring. The Canadian capital, so the stereotype holds, is a sleepy town of risk-averse nine-to-five government workers. One former cabinet minister once famously quipped that “the best thing about Ottawa is the train to Montreal,” a bastion of Quebecois cool two hours to the east.
It is a reputation that has outlasted its welcome, city officials have decreed, in appointing a night commissioner to make Ottawa “a nightlife destination of choice for residents, visitors, businesses and investors”.
