Ditchburn: Centre Block's big makeover – at last, some oversight

There were a lot of 11th-hour trips up the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill earlier this month, a lot of group photos being taken in the halls and one-last-meals among colleagues in the fifth-floor restaurant of Centre Block. (I was one of those furiously snapping photos in all my favourite spots.) The gravity of seeing the nearly century old building close for at least a decade of rehabilitation is sinking in, and parliamentarians are justifiably leery of what changes will come when the tarp