Canada | Some 40% of Parks Canada historic buildings, other real estate assets unsafe or unusable

About 40 per cent of Parks Canada's buildings, forts, bridges and other items of real estate are unsafe or unusable, or require billions of dollars in major repairs, says a new report.

An analysis the agency commissioned from an independent consultant says Parks Canada has deferred up to $9.5 billion in badly needed work – and ought to spend up to $3.3 billion on top of that to cope with the threat of climate change.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parks-canada-real-estate-1.5043533

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