 It's another one of those cultural preservation ideas that this government is all a part of. They really seem to have a nostalgia for the way things used to be. And I guess Jean-Paul Sartre would have appreciated that the French here in Canada are all about preserving the past, even if it comes at the expense of the future. To me, progress sometimes means having to let go of the past. And there's nothing wrong with saying we hosted the Olympics, turning something into a shrine there, or making some sort of memorial that remembers that this is where the place used to stand.