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The National Capital Commission’s board has put the final nail in the coffin of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism’s contentious site near the Supreme Court of Canada.

At its public meeting Wednesday, the board rescinded the approval it gave in 2013 for the site.

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The former Conservative government’s decision to position the memorial on the judicial precinct site galvanized public opposition and turned what was supposed to be a vote-getter for the Conservatives into a political liability.

Melanie Joly, the minister of Canadian Heritage, announced last month that, after a redesign, the memorial will move to a site yet to be determined in the Garden of the Provinces and Territories, further west on Wellington Street. The NCC had originally reserved a site there for the memorial in 2011.

Given Joly’s announcement, the decision to rescind approval for the Supreme Court site was little more than a formality.