AJ

Dixon Jones founder Edward Jones has told the AJ he still thinks there is 'a chance' of building the practice's National Portrait Gallery of Canada – but not under the present administration. The architect has made doubly sure of that after launching a fierce broadside at Canada's current Conservative government, which decided to ditch the firm's competition winning proposals when it came into power in 2006 (AJ online 19.06.06). A frustrated Jones hit out at the party for turning the project, won following an international contest back in 2003, into a 'victim of party politics', and went on to say: 'Shame on Canada and shame on the present government for reversing the previous government's decision.