So, it will cost ten million dollars to renovate the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive. This, while hundreds of thousands of Canadians would be happy to live in a two hundred thousand dollar house, and thousands more are homeless.

I have a suggestion. Buy or build a two or three million dollar home, and add a million dollars worth of security equipment. Then sell 24 Sussex Drive to the highest bidder.

The savings can be used to provide accommodation for the homeless.

Published in the Chronicle Herald, approx. May 2008