Note to mods: could well already be an appropriate existing discussion, but under some more obscure title. Merge or not as need be.
iPolitics:
More Parliamentary construction and demolition in the works — a surprise to MPs
The federal department responsible for billions of dollars in renovation and reconstruction of Parliament Hill’s aging buildings has launched a plan to raze old buildings across Ottawa’s Wellington St. directly in front of the Peace Tower to create yet more new spaces for MP offices and parliamentary committee rooms.
An advance procurement notice published on the Public Services and Procurement Canada site last week says the new construction and demolition works — on one of three city blocks whose properties were expropriated by the federal government nearly 50 years ago — are crucial for successful renovation of the Hill’s Centre Block and other buildings under repair in the Parliamentary precinct.
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