Lol.
Well yeah I completely agree that transformation is inevitable and that in most cases, heritage arguments here are nonsense. But we can't simply destroy everything old nor can we always upset the fabric of certain cities or neighbourhoods. History needs to be preserved. People come from all over the world to stand in awe of cities like Istanbul, London, Goa, Lagos and so on. Once it's gone, it's gone. I love watching Star Trek and even in that advanced version of our future, they still preserve historic areas of cities and planets. Imagine living in 2489 and not really knowing what once existed? Holodecks aren't a team thing, sadly.
It just needs to be done right. In our case, we can easily preserve our heritage to an acceptable degree but permit progress and modern development. It's not as if we're bulldozing historic palaces or whatever. And yes most of the time when people use this argument against change, they likely don't really care about heritage, they just don't want something new or different in their life. But in the end, we must consider the arguments for preservation even if in many cases it's just used to argue in bad faith.
In the end, it's not like they're living in Old Montreal here, so I think this project should be approved. Nothing is being lost but a parking lot full of weeds and dirty needles. There's really not a whole lot in Canada that is unique, especially here. These people are basically objecting about the view they'll have out there windows which is just dumb. On the other hand, if someone planned to buy up the entire Civic District area and bulldoze this all down, then they'd have something. Either way, they can voice their concerns and we need to listen to them as it lets us make decisions as to how we evolve this city we call home.
Well yeah I completely agree that transformation is inevitable and that in most cases, heritage arguments here are nonsense. But we can't simply destroy everything old nor can we always upset the fabric of certain cities or neighbourhoods. History needs to be preserved. People come from all over the world to stand in awe of cities like Istanbul, London, Goa, Lagos and so on. Once it's gone, it's gone. I love watching Star Trek and even in that advanced version of our future, they still preserve historic areas of cities and planets. Imagine living in 2489 and not really knowing what once existed? Holodecks aren't a team thing, sadly.
It just needs to be done right. In our case, we can easily preserve our heritage to an acceptable degree but permit progress and modern development. It's not as if we're bulldozing historic palaces or whatever. And yes most of the time when people use this argument against change, they likely don't really care about heritage, they just don't want something new or different in their life. But in the end, we must consider the arguments for preservation even if in many cases it's just used to argue in bad faith.
In the end, it's not like they're living in Old Montreal here, so I think this project should be approved. Nothing is being lost but a parking lot full of weeds and dirty needles. There's really not a whole lot in Canada that is unique, especially here. These people are basically objecting about the view they'll have out there windows which is just dumb. On the other hand, if someone planned to buy up the entire Civic District area and bulldoze this all down, then they'd have something. Either way, they can voice their concerns and we need to listen to them as it lets us make decisions as to how we evolve this city we call home.