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Article: Canada : $1.4B Taj Ma-Hospital.
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- Article date:
- August 14, 2009
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Byline: shiv03
Ontario taxpayers are paying the lion's share of a $1.4-billion plan to rebuild and maintain a Toronto hospital, including renovating the historic Don Jail building into stunning new office space for administrators.
The deal is being funded through Infrastructure Ontario, a public agency overseen by Public Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman, who as a former health minister used to complain about tax dollars being spent on "Taj Ma-Hospitals."
"We don't have extra money to throw around for grandiose design," Smitherman said in 2004. "I've travelled to a lot of hospitals and I see a lot of atriums ... It's my feeling that ...