The Sir Richard Scott Building in Ottawa was a Government of Canada building.

    My husband was part of the cleaning staff at the Richard Scott Building in 1982 and 1983, and he had to show ID to the Commissionaires at the front desk every time he showed up for work. My husband was a federal employee just as I was a government employee when I worked as a cleaning lady at the nearby Conference Centre.
   The office tower at 191 Laurier Avenue West in Ottawa is now owned by a company that plans to buy the Ottawa Public Library which is attached to the building.
Once the Ottawa Library is demolished, the owner will inevitably build high rise condominiums because they will probably own the air rights.
      
Who owns L'Esplanade Laurier in downtown Ottawa?
  "Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada is the owner in fee simple of the property (the "Property") municipally known as 171-181 Bank Street, 140 O'Connor Street and 300 Laurier Avenue West, in the City of Ottawa, and commonly referred to as "L'Esplanade Laurier"

The term "Fee simple" means "A permanent and absolute tenure of an estate of land with the freedom to dispose of it at will, especially in full fee simple absolute, a freehold tenure, which is the main type of land ownership".
If the Queen owns L'Esplanade Laurier why are the commoners, the taxpayers of Canada, paying for the refurbishment of the complex?Do the occupants of a foreign country own our National Parks, the Royal Canadian Mint and Crown corporations. A true Canadian would never authorize the demolition of Kingston Pen, the Prison for Women, the Saint Vincent de Paul Pen and New Westminster Pen---and the sale of prison farm land. Collins Bay Institution owns more than 800 acres of land.
A true Canadian would never evict thousands of federal employees from government buildings.
A real Canadian would never convert the historic Canada Post Headquarters in Toronto into the Air Canada Centre.

My niece and I on the steps of 557 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa- 1982. My husband and I lived in the building so that we could walk to work The apartments overlooking the Technical High School grounds no longer exist.