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I find it upsetting this is how we treat architecture. The only positive thing about Guild Park is that you have these pieces here and are to some extent preserved. But you still see them just sitting on pallets with sections of damage. Some areas feel like a degradation of the architectural pieces. This isn’t to put city workers in a bad light; they are there to do their job. Rather this is a criticism of how the government has decided to protect and maintain these pieces. They just end up being forgotten and end up looking like a graveyard of architectural pieces.

You look at Raymond Moriyama’s Ontario Science Centre and it likely will not get the same treatment. The province wants this land for development. How does one move an entire building? It wouldn’t be feasible. From a financial standpoint, how the Premier is planning to build a new building is a waste of money when there are other more pressing concerns in this province.

How the government treated Moriyama’s Temple Bell (funded by Japanese Canadians) and was to celebrate the centennial of Japanese Canadians in Canada on a land for Ontarians – Ontario Place – to only move it into a storage… and sell off the land to a developer (not from Canada), all the while selling a service to the upper class and taxpayers pay for it. The premier talks about Ontario not being for sale yet this is exactly what he is doing. Selling off land (precious land where we grow our food), educational institutions, healthcare institutions all the while promoting the arrests of drug users. We just had a TTC subway track level injury today. Was his plan to arrest that individual as well? Do we arrest workers on jobsites for injuries? They don’t require healthcare, right? Are we promoting systemic racism by making post-secondary school inaccessible due to costs and making OSAP unattainable? Why would a person representing a province do this? What message are we giving to all people in the province? BIPOC people shouldn’t receive post-secondary school education and should do precarious work? Who does the Premier serve then?