Dive summary:

• Robert Nazarian, who owns the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario, simply could not afford the kind of extensive roof repair that the center needed and that led to a partial collapse that killed two people in June 2012, he told an inquiry commission.
• The financial constraint kept engineers from doing more in-depth inspections than Nazarian said he wanted, witnesses told the inquiry.
• The upshot is a call from engineering organizations for inspection standards to be written into code so that structural analyses, at least after damage to a building, cannot be limited by anyone's request.

From the article:

Weeks ago Nazarian testified that the structure was a money pit that he couldn’t afford to repair without disastrous financial consequences. ...