Will Montreal's Silo No. 5 be demolished?

   A few days ago the Government of Canada announced plans to sell Silo No. 5 in Pointe-du- Moulin, Montreal. The entire site will be redeveloped.
"Facadism" is an architectural practice whereby only the facade of a building is preserved. For example, only a wall at Air Canada Centre/Scotiabank Centre arena was retained, after the Canada Post mail processing plant in Toronto was privatized.
 The de Havilland Building is being re purposed by Centennial College for its new Centre for Aerospace and Aviation, to see a Live-stream video of the construction site Google "Downsview Campus: Centre for Aerospace...Centennial College".
Facadism is actively discouraged in Paris, France and Melbourne, Australia. And the Vienna Charter denounced the practice:
     Article 7 of the International Vienna Charter:
"A monument is inseparable from the history to which it bears witness and from the setting in which it occurs. The moving of all or part of a monument cannot be allowed except where the safeguarding of that monument demands it or where it is justified by national or international interest of paramount importance." (From Wikipedia.)
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The organization Heritage Montreal claims that they will fight for the survival of Silo No.5.
 Heritage Montreal never saved the Griffintown Horse Palace. They are not fighting Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte's plan to build a pyramid/ portal to another galactic dimension on the Old Port of Montreal.

A former Canada Post mail sorting depot, 1500 rue Ottawa, Griffintown Montreal. (From: a 2007 Globe and Mail classified ad.) The 24-acre property became "Les Bassins du Havre". Community members created a website called "Save Griffintown!".

Silo No. 5 was a filming location for the Joan Allen/Jason Staham movie "Death Race" about a sadistic prison warden.

Outragious examples of Federal Government Buildings being re purposed
1.) The Montgomery's Tavern National Historic Site of Canada at 2384 Yonge Street Toronto. The building was privatized by Canada Post, see the Globe and Mail newspaper article "A new uprising at Montgomery's Tavern." The landmark has been stripped of Canada's Maple Leaf Flag and distinctive blue awnings. Federally-owned buildings in Ontario are excluded from the Ontario Heritage Act.

2384 Yonge Street Toronto.

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A Vancouver British Columbia post office conversion. Is it any surprise that Dame Moya Greene was the head of Canada Post and she privatized the United Kingdom's Royal Mail.

 Government buildings that no longer existCanada Post Office - 50 Charles Street, Rosedale Toronto.

The de Havilland Building in Toronto, 1968. The classified ad is from "Canadian Armed Forces Review" a magazine created by my Dad.