Sunday, August 12, 2018

Canadians do not own the CN Tower.

And they never will.
 The CN Tower was a Canadian National Railway real estate asset. When the railway was privatized in 1995, all the real estate owned by the Crown corporation was transferred to the Canada Lands Company.
     "In Canada, Crown corporations, within either the federal or provincial sphere, are owned by the Monarch as the institution's legal shareholder...This follows the legal premise that the Crown, as an institution, owns all the property of the state."(From: Wikipedia - Crown corporations). I would like to decipher what that paragraph means exactly. The CLC is called an agent of Her Majesty. Why is federal property in my country called Crown property?
Who exactly is profiting the billions of dollars that Canada Lands Company receives from the sell-off of public land and buildings?  Only a fraction of the money is deposited into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. The CRF is the national treasury of my country. The Dominion Public Building across the street from Union Station in Toronto was recently sold for $275 million dollars by Canada Lands. And a sailing group offered to buy Kingston Penitentiary.

 During the early 1980's I was a cleaning lady at the Conference Centre, a federal building which is across the street from the Chateau Laurier Hotel. I had to wear a uniform, a name tag, and I had to swear an Oath of Allegiance to the Sovereign before a commissionaire. I could never afford to buy a house, but I and millions of other Canadians actually owned the former train station.

 UNESCO is called upon to save many of Canada's National Parks and and National Historic Sites. Parks Canada is not saving our national landmarks, the agency approved the impending demolition of  Kingston Penitentiary and the conversion of the Prison for Women in Kingston into housing.
 The CLC is currently selling at a frenzied pace:
Vacant land along Carling Avenue and Gladstone Avenue, which are part of Ottawa's Little Italy.
Health Canada laboratories
Fisheries and Oceans marinas
Government buildings
Prisons
 mail sorting plants

 Years ago there was an attempt to remove the words Canadian and Canada from the word mark CN Tower. A statue called "The Universal Man" was wrenched from the base of the CN Tower, then the statue was face down in the the mud and snow for years, while the Skydome was being built on CLC land.
The Universal Man by Gerald Gladstone is now standing in a Yorkdale Mall, Toronto parking lot.
The CLC  will profit immensely from the ruination of a beautiful city in Ontario, Kingston. They have no respect for Canada's prison, military, railway or maritime history.
 All the evidence that the Prison for Women was a prison is being removed and relocated to the Penitentiary Museum or Kingston Penitentiary.







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