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We were disappointed. A lot of the information was anecdotal, and of little relevance. For example, the Queen Victoria statue, the main comment was that there's a big lion, to which the guru said: "I guess she wanted to look powerful"; no mention of her relevance to Ottawa/Canada, or that the lion is the national animal of England. We mentioned the statue of Terry Fox as there were non-Canadians in the tour. The guru downplayed his efforts saying "he ran what he could, as he was disable". To which we had to point that he ran the equivalent to a marathon a day for about 3 months. Then we mentioned the Terry Fox run, and the guru didn't know this was a national event, she asked if this was something that Calgary schools did. What the guru mentioned several (too many) times was that she had done those tours with Ukrainian new comers. We wanted more info on the Rideau Canal, the guru stuck to basics, "it's used by rich people with boats in the summer", "it goes all the way to Kingston", so after three tries we gave up asking. We have done more than a dozen cities with Guruwalk, this is the first one we consider less than extraordinary.
