"The NCC gave the United States the green light to build an embassy after a proposal to build it on Mile Circle at Rockcliffe created a community uproar there in the 1980's. The NCC also allowed the governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to build well-secured embassies on Sussex. The Aga Khan is taking over the former Canadian war museum on Sussex. Rideau Hall was closed to the public when former governor general Jeanne Sauve closed the gates in the name of security in the 1980's..."There's barely a property left that's not embassy. I'm not anti-embassy, just trying to keep this mile of Canadian history." said Brian McGarry, the Conservative candidate in Ottawa Centre. (From: "Keep Sussex pavilion public, group tells NCC." by Patrick Dare, March 5, 2007, Ottawa Citizen newspaper.)
The architectural design of the new High Commission resembles a highly fortified bunker in a war zone.
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