Just to situate this before I get to the steel—and I don't think you can see this from the Hill camera—if you venture up to the site and look through the side of the construction fence, you'll see that a very large hole, which is the future Parliament welcome centre, is filling in. We are now working on the second level, meaning we've already done the bottom level. We're actively pouring concrete on the second level. The hole is filling up.
Inside the building, we're actively working on structural reinforcements—people saw the rebar—and excavation underneath the building. That structural work is in hand throughout the building. On the exterior—because Parliament Hill is a major draw for visitors and a major economic driver for the tourism industry—we did a lot of work, before the project even stood up, to coordinate things like the changing of the guard, to make sure that could still happen, and putting lights on the building. You name it; we've done those engagements.
We deliberately started the masonry program, which is actively under way, on the rear parts of the building so that we maintained the front view of the facade for as long as possible. However, alas, we are at the point when we have to move the masonry program across the front facade and along the Peace Tower.
If you were looking through the Hill camera today, you would see on the east side of the building that scaffolding is starting to take shape. Over the course of the winter and spring, you're going to see that scaffolding come up across the front of the building, and that's so we can start the masonry rehabilitation along the front, do window restoration and replacement, etc.
