Château under siege: a case for nationalization
Built by the Crown on Crown land and adjacent to Parliament Hill, the Government of Canada nonetheless decided to privatize the Château Laurier in 1988. That decision can be reversed. It may now be time to bring it back under Crown stewardship. It belongs to Canadians, perhaps they deserve to own it.
WAKEFIELD, QUE.—If architecture is indeed frozen music, as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once declared, the proposed addition to Ottawa’s landmark Château Laurier hotel is extremely discordant to many ears. Ross and Macdonald must be rolling in their graves. Toronto condomini...
