Parks Canada property in total is worth $16.3 billion dollars, which means that KPMG is recommending that half of the entire portfolio be sold off.
Apparently 183 dams and bridges may be divested. The term "bridges" means:
highways
roads
trail bridges
structural culverts
(Google: Parks Canada-EVALUATION OF ASSET MANAGEMENT-PWGSC-2009.)
This massive fire sale of OUR roads, highways, trail bridges, dams and culverts must be stopped.
A Parks Canada 2017-18 Departmental Plan states that:
"..Parks Canada is responsible for ensuring that irreplaceable heritage buildings and structures are protected and passed on to future generations..."
A previous government permitted the sale of railway hotels in Canada to Fairmont, including:
Jasper Park Lodge - Alberta - CNR.
Banff Springs - CPR.
Chateau Lake Louise - Alberta - CPR.
Why did the Government of Canada not buy the CPR hotels, when they had the opportunity to do so? Because they did not care about ordinary Canadians, about our sense of national pride and patriotism. Landmarks are worth fighting for, I cannot imagine France selling the Eiffel Tower of India selling the Taj Mahal to a foreign government. Our landmarks should not be owned by foreign royalty and New York City investors.
For years the Fraser Institute has been calling for the privatization of federal Crown property:
CN Tower in Toronto.
Canadian Mortgage and Housing land and buildings.
Canada Post
Canada Place in Vancouver.
Fraser Institute report. |
Fraser Institute report. |
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