The federal government is looking at dropping the dilapidated mansion at 24 Sussex in Ottawa as the prime minister’s official residence and is considering several other sites in the city for a replacement, sources say.
The various federal agencies in charge of the PM’s official residence have identified other plots of land where they could build an official residence that is larger, safer and more accessible than the one that served prime ministers from 1951 to 2015.
The residence at 24 Sussex is in a state of disrepair after decades of neglect, and the grounds are simply too small to meet modern security standards, several sources
