The price tag to rename Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square could be as much as $600,000 more than originally anticipated, the city says.
The rising budget for the project is expected to be considered by members of Olivia Chow’s executive committee as part of a wider update on the file that is on the agenda for a meeting next week.
However, Elvidge also said that additional potential costs associated with renaming the square have been identified and they could run an extra $300,000-$600,000. The motion followed a campaign to rename city assets which had been named after Henry Dundas. Proponents argued that the assets should be renamed because Dundas voted to delay the end of the transatlantic slave trade, though critics of the move have said that his vote to delay the end of the trade was a compromise which ensured that some form of the bill would be passed.
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