The government plans to release the findings of a second technical report about the state of the science centre on Thursday
defended his government’s decision to shut the Ontario Science Centre, arguing it would be foolish and unsafe to keep the aging building open.
“It would be a foolish decision” to keep it open, he added. “When engineers are telling me this is unsafe, I’m not chancing it.” Mr. Ford said on Wednesday that the Rimkus report had now been peer-reviewed to confirm its findings and it would cost a “minimum of close-to 500 million” to fix the building. “It doesn’t make sense to throw money at an old, decrepit building,” he said.
Jason Ash, a spokesperson for the group Save the Ontario Science Centre, said closing the facility was unnecessary and he disputed Mr. Ford’s comments.
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