Edward Keenan: What should Toronto’s next mayor tell Doug Ford to do with his Ontario Place scheme?
, when he was discussing the plan to destroy a heritage cultural building in North York and move the beloved Science Centre attraction it houses to a new home around the edges of the giant private spa he is building at Ontario Place.
The thing Doug Ford respects about a “host” is that it has assets he can plunder and he can point to the signs saying he has the authority to keep on raiding until all the goodies are devoured or destroyed or given away. : the conservative former cop who represents the neighbourhood on city council; the centrist mayoral candidate who floated the idea of moving the Science Centre but who is now shocked that levelling architect Raymond Moriyama’s ravine masterpiece of a building would be part of the bargain; local community groups; the vast majority of major mayoral candidates.
Here’s the thing: currently we, the public, have two massive publicly owned attraction spaces in different parts of the city. The plan is to demolish one entirely and give it all away, and then demolish and give away a big chunk of another one while squeezing all the former and potential uses of both spaces into the sliver that remains.
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