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Originally Posted by acottawa
Does it?
It is very difficult to find any references to historical events that took place at 24 Sussex
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It has been the official residence for more than half our PMs now, including one before he was PM. That's its history. We are too casual with discarding this sort of history.
If it has to be ripped down to the studs and reinvented from the inside out, both for its own sake, but also to make it viable as an official residence in the future, let's do that. Let's stop being small-town cheap as a country.
(You know what other famous official residences have been gutted and rebuilt in the same way, for the same reasons, BTW?)
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It doesn't appear to have been used for many official functions after Mulroney.
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Chretien and Harper both hosted dignitaries there, but part of the hesitancy to doing more, is that it's allowed to become unsuitable. So let's keep the part that has a story and a patina of history, renovate or add what needs renovating and adding, and start acting like a grown-up country.