To understand why successive governments allowed 24 Sussex to fall into a miserable state of disrepair — and why Justin Trudeau has spent nearly eight years avoiding a decision on whether to rebuild or replace what used to be the prime minister’s official residence — one need only consider what Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had to say about the matter Tuesday.
“The prime minister has had one mansion where his food is cooked, another mansion where he lives, a third mansion on a lake — and that wasn’t enough for him, so he built a second lakefront mansion with our money at Harrington Lake,” Poilievre