OTTAWA - Visitors to Parliament Hill won't be able to see the iconic Peace Tower by the end of next year, once it's covered with Canadian steel scaffolding to enable renovations and repairs.

The Peace Tower is set to be sheathed in scaffolding so that workers can repair its interior and exterior — part of sprawling renovations to the nearly 100-year-old building.

Siavash Mohajer, senior construction director with Public Service and Procurement Canada, said the push to use Canadian materials in the renovation ramped up after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on this country.

"Initially, the design of (the scaffolding) would have required a lot of foreign-made steel. And so we went back and challenged our designers," Mohajer told reporters during a guided tour through Centre Blo

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