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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver
So I take it the exhaustive search by the Feds to find a home for the National Portrait Gallery has ended?
[edit] just answered my own question with a re-read of the article.
When does Ottawa decide on the winner of the competition?
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Perhaps it's because I'm an exiled British Columbian myself, but this pretty much illustrates why I'm skeptical that Ottawa will ever win the competition for a Portrait Gallery. Ottawa is perceived in most of Canada, especially the West, as part and parcel of the federal government. That's why federal office buildings have to be built on the cheap. If the Conservatives rejected Vancouver, Quebec City, Halifax, and so forth in favour of Ottawa, it would look really, really bad. As I stated last year in a different thread, they will probably grant the Portrait Gallery to a city that will yield them some political payback, as with any other large federal contract.
Which is not to say that it isn't good news that Claridge wants to build condos downtown.