Canadian PM’s residence shut down over dead mice in walls, documents say

Officials decided to shut down decrepit building last year amid concerns that the air in the mansion was no longer safe to breathe

So many dead mice were trapped behind the sagging walls and heaped in the basement of the Canadian prime minister's official residence that officials decided shut down the the decrepit building last year amid concerns that the air in the mansion was no longer safe tobreathe, according to newly released documents.

The limestone-clad house at 24 Sussex Drive, perched on a cliff above the Ottawa River, is the country's most symbolically important and politically fraught plots of real estate.