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Acrimony over plans for a massive monument to victims of communism near the Supreme Court could make Thursday’s meeting of the National Capital Commission board the most contentious in years.

Veterans are coming to the meeting to protest the monument. Too big, they say, and in the wrong place.

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Architects have mobilized, saying a political “whim” will leave us with a monument no one wants. The City of Ottawa wants to stop it, too.

And on Tuesday, a New Democratic MP said that newly released letters between cabinet ministers show that “political pressure” triumphed over planning in selecting the controversial site.

Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar says cabinet ministers combined to “do an end run” around a vision plan for the Hill, one in which Parliament itself chose to create a precinct of parliamentary and judicial buildings.

And he says the only consultation the ministers did was with each other and with a charity group backing the Memorial to Victims of Communism.