Senate playing catch-up on Centre Block renovation plans, but Red Chamber’s footprint to remain untouched

‘We’re going to get left behind if we don’t get up and running and voice our concerns and our issues quickly,’ says ISG Senator Sabi Marwah of design plans for Centre Block’s renovation.

The Centre Block building, as pictured on April 1. Public Services and Procurement Canada is working to finalize schematic design plans for Centre Block's renovation by late spring or early summer. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

May 20, 2020

After a slow start to the year, Senators are playing catch-up on proposed plans for the Centre Block building’s renovation and construction of the final Visitors’ Welcome Centre, with the Upper Chamber’s oversight subcommittee still being formed, but Alberta Senator Scott Tannas says he thinks...

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