Queen’s Park needs a facelift. Ontario should give PEI a call

If you’ve seen the Centre Block of Parliament Hill on television lately, you’ll know the beautiful facade is obscured by cranes, as the century-old building is five years in to a massive, decade-long renovation.

The same treatment is in the offing for Ontario’s Legislative Assembly, which is also said to need a billion-dollar facelift. Again, the building is more than a century old and needs considerable modernization.

Perhaps there’s something to learn from Prince Edward Island, whose legislative assembly is about to reopen after 11 years of intense renovation. Province House was built in 1847. It’s the place where, in 1864, Sir John A. Macdonald gathered delegates in the Confederation Chamber and began the negotiations to create Canada. But in 2015, Islanders began to notice their seat of democracy was suffering from structural damage. The roof was never particularly good to begin with, and […] This is an excerpt. Read the full article at TVO.org.