By India Today World Desk: The official residence of the Canadian prime minister was pressured to shut down in 2022 after rodents, significantly lifeless mice, precipitated a menace on the premises. The house has been vacant since 2015 and, as per the native authorities, the restoration work would not be an inexpensive affair.
Contrary to the favored notion that political leaders reside in among the many world’s most iconic properties, along with the White House or the 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, the future of the Canadian PM’s official house located at 24 Sussex Drive has fallen prey to rodent infestation.
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The property has been dwelling to Canada’s prime ministers for better than 70 years and, truly, has welcomed personalities like John F Kennedy, Princess Diana, Mikhail Gorbachev. But the house, at present, is empty with lifeless mice on the interior partitions, and so forth.
In an official assertion, the Canadian authorities deemed the menace developing’s “mouse issue which caused additional problems”.
As per Canada’s federal firm that manages the property, the National Capital Commission (NCC), the scenario of the house is up inside the air with water pipes which is likely to be rusted, electrical wiring that is aged and the property nearing a “catastrophic collapse”. The house extra lacks central air-con.
The estimated worth to restore the property at current stands at better than C$ 36 million.
The latest problem is an “important rodent infestation… that leaves us with excrements and carcasses between the walls and in attic and basement spaces,” as per the NCC, that moreover has the authority to order shut down of Canadian authorities properties.
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The scenario of the house is alleged to be harmful to the extent of “concerns with air quality” for respiratory, with inside partitions of the property containing harmful asbestos, which might’t be mounted until a remediation approach is in place. Meanwhile, the authorities acknowledged they have been resorting to the bait approach to handle the state of affairs.
As per a report in The Guardian, the Canadian authorities’s paperwork highlighted the explanation for the menace as a few years of mismanagement. Also, the scenario of the house is taken under consideration a fire hazard too.