Critics blast government request for nine cities to bid on Canada’s Portrait Gallery

'This is a cockamamie idea dreamed up by a right-wing government trying to pass this off as some sort of private- public partnership,' says Ottawa South Liberal MP David McGuinty

The government is playing partisan politics by opening a bidding war for the Portrait Gallery of Canada's new location because the Conservatives are loathe to do anything that the previous Liberal government has started, claims one Liberal MP.

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