Memo to Brantford: Hamilton Heritage Demolition 101

We can only tell you this: the path you have chosen for your heritage buildings on Colborne Street is the path we have been trying to get off for the last forty years.

The process of decimating heritage, though it appears to be swift and easy, is a long-drawn and rigorous affair. We should know; after all, we wrote the manual on this.

Our audacity to destroy our heritage was built painstakingly over years on substantive scientific principles, such as: slow leaking roofs, open windows, pigeon poop, popping walls, and our latest innovation – the pancaking floors.

Your unprincipled approach has left us in a state of shock. You just cannot rush such matters without following the proper protocol that we have developed exclusively for the task of erasing heritage and memory.