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And Glover got into a dust-up in the House of Commons again on Wednesday with Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar over the city’s motion.

“Will the minister do our democracy the honour of actually listening and respecting elected representatives?” asked Dewar in the House. “In other words, will Conservatives change the location of the memorial back to its original site?”

It does not seem so. Glover responded that her government would “be very proud to put that monument in a prominent location, to do just what we promised to do.”

Both events this week highlight the ever-more-voluble opposition to the memorial, but for different reasons. The EKOS survey respondents were reacting mostly to the design — they were shown four artist’s renderings of the massive memorial — and to a lesser extent the idea of the memorial itself. (The poll didn’t ask about the ideals behind the memorial, but it did offer five concepts and asked respondents to rank in terms of priorities. A national library “on a grand scale” and a memorial commemorating injustices against Aboriginal people ranked first, while a memorial to victims of communism came last.)

The city’s motion explicitly and painstakingly dealt only with the location of the site. Moved by Coun. Tobi Nussbaum and fully supported by Mayor Jim Watson — who’s already made opposition to the project known — the motion asks the federal government to find another site for the memorial.

And for good reason. The Conservatives unilaterally decided to move this memorial from a perfectly reasonable site at the Garden of the Provinces to the land beside the Supreme Court, despite decades-long plans to build a federal court on the property (a courthouse, coincidentally, to be named after Pierre Trudeau).