Canada Lands Company sold the Dominion Public Building in Toronto.

     The Dominion Public Building in Toronto is located next to Union Station. A year and a half ago Canada Lands Company sold the property to Larco Investments, and 1,900 federal employees were evicted. Forty-five and 49 storey rental apartments will now be constructed on the former Crown asset.
This is what happens, when federal buildings are privatized. This is what happens, when elected officials care more about developers than the people who elected them. This is what happens, when Canada Lands Company buys a railway hotel, or train station, museum or prison, and the buildings are stripped of Canada's Maple Leaf Flag, Coat of Arms and heritage protection laws.

Comments about the project:

"What a godawful pair of penetrating shards into this beautiful, historic building. It's like the building has been stabbed to death by a pair of daggers".

 "This design is parasitic. It has the appeal of the Cordyceps fungus. It's the architectural equivalent of a Xenomorph Chestbuster from the Alien movie series. Or maybe the one from Spaceballs."

 "Imagine if the English bolted a hideous condo tower onto Buckingham Palace. They would never do such a thing and neither should we."

 "I actually refer to these buildings as having a cancer. "
( Photos and comments from urbantoronto.ca)

Interior of the Dominion Public Building.

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 Larco Investment plans for the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa can be seen in the drawing below. The Chateau Laurier Hotel was a Crown Asset, a federal building, before the Canadian National Railway was privatized:

My father George Shaw and Canadian Olympic ski champion Nancy Greene, in the Chateau Laurier Hotel in 1968--before the hotel was sold to Fairmont, Carl Icahn and Larco Investments.