But it's not being offered as an exhibition space: if you look at the proposal, it's being offered to the Indigenous peoples as a block of offices that can be used for national offices. Exhibitions will be held at the Gallery, NAC or Museum of History… or the old train station.

More importantly, it's not a tourist-friendly area: cars will soon be banned from the Byward Market (now a high crime area), public transit is being moved away from the area, and the businesses in the area are going bankrupt. 

There are better places in Ottawa. Though, to be fair, the community doesn't like any of them either — at this rate, they won't like it when their rumoured Governor General (to sit next to the colonial one) is offered 24 Sussex (because the Trudeaus definitely don't want it).