Hill statues stored outside behind Library of Parliament during massive renovations

The historic figures may not be out of mind but, secured to the library's exterior stone wall by rope and yellow plastic caution tape and hidden behind a padlocked wooden gate, they are definitely out of sight.

PARLIAMENT HILL—John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson have quietly disappeared. After an unheralded and delicate operation by the Public Works and Government Services Canada, unknown to Senators and MPs when it took place, the statues of the two one-time rivals on Parliament Hill, along with ...

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