The sheer amount of bugs planted in buildings, especially at time of construction, has been an astonishing revelation to me. It’s funny to think that this is a full time job but many people have no idea it happens.

I’d take that one with a bit of a grain of salt - significant factions in the DND really didn’t want a hand-me-down facility in west Ottawa, they wanted to build something new across the river or downtown. There may have been strong inventive for some to “find” reasons to not occupy the former nortel campus.

The DND changed their story a few times, but the latest AFAIK is that they deny any listening devices had been found. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/the-my...