This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The massive restoration project under way at Parliament’s Centre Block will cost up to $5-billion and continue at least until 2030, federal officials say.
“It is a national icon that needs to be protected so that it can continue to serve our parliamentary democracy into the next century. But more than that, it is a building for all Canadians,” she said, stressing its role as a venue for major events, visits from international leaders “and even the occasional protest.
“Much of the building has now been taken down to the studs,” Rob Wright, an assistant deputy minister in the Procurement Department, told reporters at a technical briefing. New heating and cooling technology as well as enclosed courtyards will transform one of the government’s “worst greenhouse gas-emitting buildings to a carbon-neutral facility,” Wright said.
Imagine how many First Nation Communities could have gotten clean water in their communities versus using the money for surface work on parliament Blg🤦🏽♀️. This federal government‘a priorities are screwed up!!
Wow. Zoom meetings seem a lower cost option…
No. Thats completely inflated. Someone is stealing a bunch of money.
I vote for running a Parliament out of bunch of Teepees, At the rate we are going we gonna end up there anyway.
Money well wasted
Bulldoze the place.
Until this moment I may have said repairing parliament had no price tag. $5B is madness. There’s no way that was the most economical option / contract.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to tear it down and rebuild a replica - 5 bill, IS, a lot of coin
Clean water for indigenous people?
What a waste, contractors getting rich
Good God….$5 billion…could’ve purchased and developed a new land and build a new state of the art parliament….
For that price they should have plowed it under and built back better, greener, and used the remaining billions to do some good.
SNC ?
Daaaaaaaamn!! 5 billion!?!? How
How much would it cost to build a new one?
But no money to put in the infrastructure for First Nations, Inuit & Metis communities. They need water treatment and housing. And land back.
The Globe is such a pain. I subscribe yet every time I want to read an article I have to sign in with the most complicated set of instructions in the history of mankind.
I have a good idea: How about clean water and equitable health care for Indigenous Peoples first.
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