The Canadian Competitions Catalogue is proud to be the first to present full documentation from all the projects submitted by the 11 national and international teams selected to participate in the two phases of the “Block 2” competition in Ottawa in 2021 and 2022. The administrative term “Block 2” does not say anything about the democratic, cultural, historical, heritage and urban importance of this segment of Wellington Street, located in front of the Canadian Parliament. In the words of Honorary Jury Chair John Ralston Saul, the moral compass of this great competition, what was at stake was no more and no less than “the completion of Parliament Square,” which began a century and a half ago in the nation’s great inaugural architectural competition to design Canada’s Parliament. To propose to rename this site “Parliament Square” would be an initiative that is all the more powerful and appropriate in terms of “Canadian-style” democracy, since the term “precinct” only affirms the frank, secure and?dare we say it?”police-like” limits of this public space, where the complexity of the Canadian Federation is expressed. Since I had the honour of being associated with this process in 2016, through meetings and presentations to the Public Services and Procurement Canada team in charge of Parliament Hill, I can testify that it was a question of pushing the limits and preserving democratic ...