NCC Creates An Episode of Seinfeld

What if you held a meeting where nothing happened and nobody came?

Would that still be a meeting or something else?

That’s what looks like it is occurring with the Sept. 23 meeting of the National Capital Commission.

The NCC’s press release is below:

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NCC Board of Directors Meeting and Media Availability on September 23, 2025

National Capital Region — The National Capital Commission (NCC) will hold its Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. The meeting is open to the public, will take place at NCC Headquarters and will be webcast live on YouTube. Simultaneous interpretation will be available.

Public Meeting of the Board of Directors

When: Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 9 am

Location: NCC Headquarters – 40 Elgin Street, 3rd Floor, Room?324

and live webcast on YouTube

Media Availability

Following the public meeting, Chairperson of the Board of Directors Maryse Gaudreault and Chief Executive Officer Tobi Nussbaum, will hold a media availability.

When: Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 10:45 am

Location: NCC Headquarters – 40 Elgin Street, 2nd Floor, NCC Urbanism Lab and Zoom videoconference

Members of the media must pre-register by email at communications@ncc-ccn.ca, indicating their name and affiliation to attend the media availability in person or receive the Zoom link to join the meeting online.

Please visit the NCC website for the meeting agenda and to watch the live webcast. Follow us on social media for updates.

Media information

Maryam El-Akhrass

NCC Media Relations

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The NCC release is so light it’s doubtful the ink would stick to the paper. The NCC couldn’t pay me to go to that vacuum of information.

There’s a press release to grip your heart strings and rivet you to the action. Not one small bit of information is there about the content of the meeting.

What’s the deal NCC? Are you holding this meeting because you must hold this meeting? Are you happy to report that you’re doing nothing? And the media should come because that’s what media does?

This just in, NCC. The media, what’s left of it, isn’t going to meetings in which they have no idea if there’s news in it at all.

If you have extremely limited reporter options, this meeting is in there with watching rain water flow down a sewer. At least the rain water is moving.

No news there media folks but come anyway. Maybe there’s free coffee.

The news release points readers to the agenda in two documents which The Bulldog has kindly listed below. Do not read if operating heavy equipment. They are nothing but whipped air:

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NCC-CCN-Agenda-in-camera-huit-clos-sept25

There’s nothing in them except an update on the new Ottawa Hospital which, as you know, will be progressing swimmingly.

Then there’s a news conference after where reporters and NCC execs can discuss the meeting where nothing happened. This has the makings of a fine episode of Seinfeld, the show about nothing.

And just to add to the suspense of this NCC extravaganza, half the meeting will be in-camera because secret government plans might leak out to build a nuclear submarine to ply the waters of Dows Lake to keep it safe for democracy (or at least NCC democracy as in “We’re doing this and it is your Canadian duty to like it … even if you don’t).

Or maybe the NCC will allow surfing on the churning waters of the Dows beside its ooky swimming dock into the Dows glorified swamp. Doubtful Col. By would jump into the Dows Lake he created and he liked the Rideau Canal a lot.

Anyway these are the pressing issues of the next NCC board meeting … the gathering about nothing.

Our federal government in action. Your tax money in action.

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