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Rideau Cottage 'inadequate' home for a PM as decision on 24 Sussex looms: internal memo

March 18, 2026

Rideau Cottage, the historic red-brick house where Canadian prime ministers have been living for more than a decade, is inadequate and comes with security risks, according to a government memorandum prepared last summer.



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