The Canadian National Railway survived the Great Depression and Two World Wars.

But Canada's first Crown corporation could not survive globalization and insatiable corporate and political greed. Canadians lost almost a billion dollars worth of real estate, including the CN Tower and the transmission tower infrastructure; thousands of miles of railway tracks, a large part of it's sovereignty and national pride, and a transportation network that connected this country from coast to coast.
CNR real estate was worth $400 to $600 to $700 million dollars in 1995. (See:"House of Commons Debates - Bill C-89-CN Commercialization Act" - May 29 1995.)
There was a discussion about selling the CN Tower in Toronto:
Mr. Guimond:" What criteria should the government use in selling the assets other than the railway? What criteria should it use in selling the CN Tower for example? How much do you think its worth?"
The Chairman: "Get the most you can get for it."
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Canada Lands Company did not sell the real estate at fair-market value, in my opinion.
Special Examination Report- Canada Lands Company May 30, 2006.
The Corporation's operating divisions. (Pages 8 and 9 of 32)
17. Real Estate Division

"When it was reactivated in August 1995, Canada Lands acquired through its subsidiaries, the Corporation,the non-operating real estate assets of the Canadian National Railway Company. The Corporation recorded these assets at an estimated fair market value of $341 million including the CN Tower at $65 million."(Actually, CNR real estate was sold at fire sale prices---$341 million dollars is less than half of what the property was worth, $700 million, during the year 1995. Real estate in cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton does not depreciate, especially if the property is located in prime locations---the waterfront, inner city...).
"By 30 September 2005, the Corporation had sold $248 million (or 90%) of the original inventory (excluding the CN Tower.)"
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The Canada Lands Company complained about the slowness of land transfers from Canadian federal Crown corporations, agencies and departments:
     "The Corporation views the slowness in land transfers a significant risk in its ability to achieve its mandate. The Corporation recognized that there have been improvements in the land transfers process in recent years and intends to continue to apply pressure in the system to facilitate land transfers." (Special Examination Report - Canada Lands Company May 30 2006.)
The mandate of the Canada Lands Company is to privatize all federal property in Canada:

"Let the Future Begin" 1997. Canada Lands company has now connected the company's land holdings database, to integrate it with the Treasury Board of Canada's Directory of Federal Real Property.

Property from Crown corporations, agencies and departments that the Canada Lands Company has already "disposed of":
Corrections Canada 
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
RCMP
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Old War Museum - Sussex Drive Ottawa.
Canada Post
Natural Resources Canada
Tunney's Pasture - Atomic Energy of Canada and Eldorado Nuclear.
Department of National Defence
Revenue Canada (the Ralston Building in Halifax was a Revenue Canada Building, and many of the 1,900 employees who were evicted from the Dominion Public Building in Toronto worked for Revenue Canada.)
Public Works and Government Services Canada properties - countless Dominion Buildings have been privatized since the Mulroney government was in power. Dominion Buildings were located in almost every Canadian town and city; they were designed by Canada's Dominion Architects, and many buildings featured Clock Towers---for example, the Higginbotham Government Building in Lethbridge, Alberta which is currently for sale. The buildings housed departments such as Canada Customs, Manpower, etc. The CLC and PWGSC signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the year 2002, read the CLC Corporate Report.
Veteran's Affairs 
Environment Canada - Canada Lands Company exchanged the Gamelin property in Gatineau - (owned by Agriculture Canada, Environment Canada and PWGSC) for a National Capital Commission Greenbelt property in Ottawa. The subdivision is called Deerfield Village.
Canadian National Railway
CNR Hotels - CN Real Estate/Canada Lands Company sold the railway hotels to the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1988; then the CPR and CN hotels were sold to multinational corporation Fairmont. The properties included:
Chateau Laurier Ottawa
Bessborough - Saskatoon
Hotel Macdonald - Edmonton
Nova Scotian
Hotel Vancouver
Fort Garry Hotel - Winnipeg
Jasper Park Lodge - Alberta
Newfoundland Hotel
Queen Elizabeth Hotel - Montreal.
Hotel Beausejour - Moncton

Who convinced Prime Minister Jean Chretien to sell the CNR? His friend and golfing buddy Bill Clinton, who was the President of the United States in  1995? Bill Clinton was also a good friend of Bill Gates, who became the majority owner of the privatized CN Rail. In the year 2008, the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars from Bill Gates. And a WikiLeaks document proved that Hillary Clinton wanted Bill Gates to be her Vice-President.
German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber alluded to a massive conspiracy to bring down Canada's railways, especially "The People's Railway" that operated a passenger rail service--- to turn the Canadian owned CNR into a multinational, foreign owned giant:
He told Der Speigel :" It benefited the Europeans and the Americans to stop the train industry in Canada."

Royal Canadian Mint CNR Coin.