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

Prime Minister Mark Carney outside his residence at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on June 14, 2025.

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.