Who is running this country anyway? Who gave this out-of-control Crown corporation the power to sell off our Canadian National Railway train stations; prisons in Kingston, Ontario; at least 12 military bases; Dominion Buildings that housed Canada Post and other federal departments, and Queens Quay on the Toronto waterfront? Did you privatize the Diefenbunkers, the Cold War nuclear shelters? Only one Diefenbunker remains, it is a tourist attraction in Carp Ontario. Via Rail has to pay Bill Gates and his fellow shareholders, to use railway tracks that were built by my ancestors, United Empire Loyalists. And CN Rail has priority use of the tracks.
Canadian train stations that were threatened with demolition.
Windsor Station - Montreal- owned by the CPR.
Union Station -Toronto - owned by the CPR.
Summerhill Station - Toronto - CPR.
(The real estate arm of the CPR was called Marathon Realty. A Senator Duff Roblin; a mayor of Calgary Rod Sykes and a premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell were Marathon Realty executives. When he was premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell sold a profitable Crown corporation called BC Rail to CN Rail.)
Union Station/ the Conference Centre - Ottawa- Canadian National Railway - National Capital Commission wanted to destroy the Conference Centre, see the website "NCC Watch:Blunders."
Canadian railway stations that were sold off or removed:
Outer Station on Montreal Street, Kingston - damaged by fire (arson), removed from the site. CNR.
Hamilton, Ontario - now a banquet hall and filming location. CNR.
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| Hamilton Ontario station. |
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| The sale of Windsor Station Montreal -( A classified ad in the Globe and Mail newspaper.) |
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