The Canada Lands Company and Ontario Realty Corporation were partners.

  The City of Kingston,Ontario may be significantly affected by any partnership between the CLC and  the Ontario Realty Corporation.
The Rockwood Hospital could be destroyed.
Infrastructure Ontario (the former Ontario Realty Corporation) is a provincial Crown corporation that privatizes land and buildings. Canada Lands and the ORC were the owners of a Canada Mortgage and Housing property in Cornwall,Ontario, at Marleau Avenue and Glenview Boulevard.

If the Canada Lands company buys Rockwood Asylum from the Ontario government, Rockwood could be demolished. After the Canada Lands Company buys a heritage building, the building loses all heritage designation and protection. And federal heritage laws supersede provincial and municipal heritage laws. The Asylum is located on prime real estate, next to Lake Ontario and Lake Ontario Park. If Canada Lands is willing to destroy the Kingston Penitentiary (which they are) they would not hesitate to bring down the Rockwood hospital. And a federal government of Canada Minister told Kristen Connor (who tried to save the Upton Experimental Farm) that the government cannot interfere in the operations of the CLC "under any circumstances."
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     "If social forces can become involved before federal property is transferred to Canada Lands there is a greater likelihood of influence over the ultimate disposal, since it remains in the sphere of public demands upon government. Once Canada Lands Company has title the issue shifts to a business model, Canada Lands must operate according to commercial principles." (From: Sites of Governance: Multilevel governing and Policy Making in Canada" by Robert Young and Martin Horak-2012-McGill-Queen's University Press.)
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Canada Lands and the Ontario Realty Corporation were both involved with selling CFB Downsview, Toronto real estate. The television program "Suits" is filmed at Downsview.
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Kingston Penitentiary is no longer protected by federal heritage laws, see the recent letter that I received from Parks Canada:

A September 18, 2018 letter I received from Parks Canada, saying that "The Big House" is no longer a heritage property. 

Infrastructure Ontario is selling the almost 100-acre Kingston Provincial Campus.
The City of Kingston has already been approached to change zoning laws, to facilitate the residential and commercial development of the site.
     "The subject property is located between King Street West and Lake Ontario, east of Lake Ontario Park". (PDF) Report PC - 16-073- City of Kingston, Page 3/47.)

The City is trying to save a number of buildings and a gazebo on the property. But we know how successful they were in trying to save the train station, the Prison for Women and the Kingston Penitentiary. Local politicians actually approved of the so-called redevelopment of  The Pen. They also want to flatten a building that was created for the 1976 Olympics, and sell off a park at Portsmouth Harbour that was a gift from the taxpayers of Ontario during the 1976 Olympics.
Buildings at the Kingston Provincial Campus  that the City wants to preserve:
Rockwood Asylum
The Rockwood Villa
Leahurst
Beachgrove
South Cottage buildings.
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Kingston Provincial Campus  
     "The property is currently owned by Infrastructure Ontario and contains significant heritage structures as well as a cultural heritage landscape through the centre of the site."
Commercial and residential construction is banned in cultural heritage landscapes, according to provincial laws in Ontario. Yet:
     "In the north east corner there will be low, medium and high density residential development."
People will not even be able to see Lake Ontario and Rockwood, if 18-storey buildings are blocking their view.

If I still lived in Kingston, I would ask the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport; my member of provincial parliament and local politicians the following questions:

1. Do the people of Ontario have the power to veto any privatization of provincial Crown property?
2. If not, why not? The people of Ontario collectively own the former prisons, mental hospitals, POW camps, office buildings...
3. Is the Rockwood Asylum being maintained, or is it being neglected. Inmates at Kingston Penitentiary built the hospital with limestone, so Rockwood could last for thousands of years. The hospital was originally built to house inmates who were considered to be too insane to be incarcerated at the penitentiary. The former mental hospital could be converted into a museum or a hotel; tourists can be given guided tours of the complex, through Haunted Walks.
4. Will Rockwood or the Villa ever be sold to another Crown corporation?
5. Will trees and shrubs on the 100-acre site will be sacrificed, to permit the building of roads, bicycle paths, strip malls, residential towers...

During the year 1968 I visited a person who was incarcerated in Rockwood Asylum. The nearby Kingston Psychiatric Hospital was a House of Healing for a teenager who wanted to escape from intolerable living conditions in her own home. There were parties in the recreation room; movie nights; the teens appeared on a CKWS tv show called "Dance Party"; they continued their education through Ontario Department of Education correspondence courses, with the help of two full-time teachers. The Rockwood Hospital was reserved for people who were "certified" or considered dangerous  and young people were sheltered from them at KPH, then known as "The OH".There are personal reasons why the Provincial Campus buildings are close to my heart. I know people who lived in the now demolished KPH and Rockwood, and their stories, their history, their memories are far more important than residential towers.

History should not be paved over because of greed or apathy.  Many people who spent time in "psych wards" during the 1960's seemed to be perfectly normal in my opinion; perhaps they were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a normal reaction to devastating events that rocked their world. The survival instinct is a very powerful force.

November 1967.

Rockwood Asylum in Kingston, Ontario is one of the Ontario Realty Corporations most important and potentially lucrative properties.  The complex was featured on the front page of an information brochure.