He might be just the guy to do it.

the home for decades. They must see the writing on the wall or have been told by security people it just will not work in the long run.

... just to make their immediate neighbor look bad.

re-open the constitution and fire the colonial Governor General and Senate while your at it!

Oh yeah, that was the party that I voted for.

promise and reform first past the post elections with proportional representation. That will benefit the left in general. So far so good.

Don't get me wrong; there are a lot of things about the Liberal platform that I like. I hope Jr. delivers.

... that Harper's treatment of 24 Sussex drive is a perfect analog for his treatment of Canada?

You can deal with my mess once I'm good and done with it.

And by then it will be far more expensive to fix!

it would look bad politically 2) It is an unsafe location and all pms knew that. Who would want to be the pm to renovate that which will not result in any equity and will likely have to be abandoned when security gets tighter as terrorism grows in the years to come. There is the old city hall of Ottawa bldg. just down the street from the PM. They did a huge renovation on it in the 1980s. Spent millions of dollars. Then the city amalgamated with other boroughs in the 1990s and moved to a new regional government offices downtown as the new City Hall. What a waste that was.