Public Services Minister Anita Anand is pushing back on the Senate's plans for the renovation of Centre Block. The government owns the Centre Block and Anand is the minister responsible for securing cabinet approval for the project budget. When the Centre Block reopens to the public, visitors will enter through the new underground Visitors Welcome Centre. The Senate is asking for a separate entrance, just like the one it had before the Centre Block closed. These rooms would double the number of Senate committee rooms in the Centre Block complex and would cost more than $47 million.

Source: CBC News June 03, 2021 18:56 UTC