The public is still reeling from the sudden closure of the Ontario Science Centre, which Premier Doug Ford is insistent on moving to the Ontario Pl...
, people have been expressing their outrage over the provincial government's lack of warning, questionable motives and generally unbecoming tactics in this case and in others, while also searching for solutions to keep the centre open at its current site.'s roof — the offender Ford and his team have blamed for the immediate shutdown — while one local councillor has beento grant the structure better heritage designation that would preserve it from being demolished and redeveloped .
Did they really think no one would question their timing? I personally, think it just makes it easier for the provincial government to move it luke they wanted to do all along.to prevent this move. We now call upon her and our government officials to uphold this promise and protect our cherished Ontario Science Centre by fully designating it as a heritage building under Ontario law," the change.org appeal, launched in the fall, reads.
A flurry of online discussion shows opinions ranging from suspicion regarding the reasoning and timing to questions of why we would waste the money to relocate the centre and some support for the move.
But, with the Science Centre already shuttered, plans well underway to move it and multiple explicit and ulterior motivations for the government to do so, it is doubtful that outrage and petitions will be enough.
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