Is the Old Port a park?
Is the Old Port a park? This might seem like a question on the order of “is a hot dog a sandwich” (which practically brought the internet to its knees, a few years ago) but this La Presse piece explains how payments to the city from the Société du Vieux-Port will have to be much larger now that a judge has ruled that the Old Port area is not a park.
Do I think it’s a park? Parts of it are parklike, the grassy bits with the pond for example. But the point made by the judge, that including commercial ventures like Bota Bota and the Centre des sciences makes it not in its whole nature a park, seems reasonable to me.
JS 13:39 on 2021-08-05 Permalink
What constitutes a commercial venture? Mount Royal Park has three restaurants plus a gift shop, and in the winter rents ice skates and inner tubes for sledding. Parc Jean Drapeau has an amusement park, an outdoor concert venue, and restaurants.
Kate 14:23 on 2021-08-05 Permalink
Good points. Is a hot dog a sandwich, though?
j2 15:55 on 2021-08-05 Permalink
If I slice my hotdog at an angle into ovals does it become a lunch meat sandwich? If I make my sandwich ingredients into long tubes does it become a hot dog? If I cut my hotdog into spheres is it a meatball sub?
Blork 16:58 on 2021-08-05 Permalink
And why do USers park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?