Ella Jean Canfield Building

While I have nothing against Ms. Canfield’s name being on the building, I have yet to understand why we even needed this building in the first place… Scott Brison’s department seems hell-bent on getting everybody out of a perfectly fine building (Charlottetown’s Dominion Building) and into a brand-new $30+ million edifice. Of course political interference, cronyism and corruption on the part of municipal, provincial and federal politicians in this province had NOTHING to do with the decision. Scum bags, every one of them. This entire file stinks. It’s ironic that a federal government so overtly committed to the environment (“let’s clean up Bobby Taylor’s Esso station site by putting in a new building”, or, “let’s sign Kyoto and not implement it just to look especially bad”) just doesn’t seem to get it that less environmental impact would have been created in this project if a decision had been made to renovate/recycle the Dominion Building, which is only 50 years old and is structurally solid. From the fall-out bunker in the sub-basements to the 6th floor, the Dominion Bld. is extremely well-built, if not a bit small. So herein lies my argument, why not just have extended this building, using the same architectural design out to fill in the entire block of Queen-Richmond-Pownal-Sydney to 6 stories high with underground parking, then finish renovating the rest of the older part of the building fronting on Queen St. Then you’d have an incredible structure, which likely would not have cost the $30-50 million the current boondoggle is costing (purchasing new land, consolidating lots, remediating soil, endless modifying of plans, finally building the structure, etc.)… Recycling makes sense - of course no federal administration in history has ever done so (recycling, or making sense). Stories on recycling buildings: http://tinyurl.com/96z9w (CNN) http://tinyurl.com/8ued9 (Philly Enquirer - free reg. required)