‘It’s disgraceful': WWII veteran rails against possible sale of Canada’s historic official residence in Italy
A retired major who fought in the Italian campaign during the Second World War is urging the government to drop plans to sell Canada’s official residence in Rome, saying the building has symbolic meaning for veterans.
“I think it’s disgraceful,” Ted Griffiths said Wednesday. “They waste billions of dollars and then they start nitpicking on things that really matter. They have no sense of what has gone on in the past.”
He was responding to a government plan to sell Villa Grandi, the residence of Canada’s ambassador to Italy. It is to be sold as part of a strategy to supplement the Foreign Affairs budget by shedding diplomatic properties.
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