Saturday, October 6, 2018

Who exactly owns Crown land in Canada?

     Are the people of Canada tenants in their own country? According to the following paragraphs, "The Crown" owns federal land, mines and minerals, buildings, structures and other fixtures above or below the surface of the land:
Report of the Auditor General of Canada 1994- Chapter 12

12.7. Federal real property consists of land inside and outside Canada, belonging to the Crown and including mines and minerals, buildings, structures, improvements and other fixtures on, above or below the surface of the land.

12.8. The federal government administers and controls real property in all provinces and territories in Canada and in many of the countries where Canada maintains diplomatic missions.
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Now I understand:
Why the Canada Lands Company is called "An Agent of Her Majesty".
Why Moya Greene, head of the Canada Lands Company, Canada Post and CN Real Estate, was honoured by the Queen, she is now "Dame Moya Greene".
Why former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell became High Commissioner to Great Britain and sold Macdonald House, a Canadian embassy in Grosnevor Square, London England. Before privatizing provincial Crown assets in BC, Gordon Campbell sold Canadian Pacific Railway properties for Marathon Realty. Now the American corporation General Electric owns massive tracts of CPR land, after buying Marathon Realty.

Now I understand:
Why the Ontario Crown corporation that privatizes provincial land and buildings is also called "An Agent of Her Majesty the Queen." Tony Miele was a Canada Lands Company executive and also an Ontario Realty Corporation executive.

Why the Canada Lands Company is more powerful than the Prime Minister of Canada and federal Members of Parliament. Kristen Connor of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island wrote a letter to the prime minister, after finding out that Canada Lands Company was going to massively redevelop an Agriculture Canada Experimental Farm. A federal minister wrote back to Ms. Connor;
     "They informed me that they were only policy directors of Canada Lands. Canada Lands is an independent organization that they cannot interfere with under any circumstances." (Kristen Connor interview with David Bulger from the book "Sites of Governance: Multilevel Governing and Policy Making in Canada - Page 65.)


Now I know:
Why the Governor-General of Canada has to approve the "disposal" of federal properties in this country; and why the Canada Lands Company only puts a fraction of the money it acquires from the sale of land and buildings into the Consolidated Revenue Fund, our national treasury. The Governor General of Canada is the Queen's representative in Canada. Our current Governor General was a Canada Lands Company executive.

Why Canada's gold is sitting in the Bank of England vaults. A Canadian named Mark Carney is president of the Bank of England.

Why Canada's Maple Leaf Flag, Coat of Arms and the names of influential Canadians are stripped from federal buildings when they are privatized. For example, the Higginbotham Dominion Building in Lethbridge, Alberta that housed Canada Post, Manpower and Canada Customs and Immigration is now simply described as "an office" on the website that sells government of Canada buildings.

Why heritage designations are stripped from prisons, museums, experimental farms, Fisheries and Oceans lighthouses, Canada Mortgage and Housing properties, Veteran's Affairs complexes, etc. when they are transferred to the Canada Lands Company. The CLC is a foreign agency, acting for the Government of Great Britain or the British Monarchy. Canadian heritage laws do not apply to properties once they are acquired by a foreign government, or by the multinational real estate company C.B. Richard Ellis; or by the Trump Organization (they bought Canadian National Railway land in Toronto to build the Trump Tower.)

Now I know:
Why Sir John A. Macdonald's home in Ottawa called Earnscliffe is owned by the Embassy of Great Britain.

Why the Canadian National Railway was sold by the Chretien government for a bargain basement price. CN Real Estate a.k.a.the Canada Lands Company wanted the land, train stations, bridges, tunnels, roundhouses, rights-of-way, CN Towers in Toronto, Edmonton and London, Ontario; office buildings; the land under the Skydome/Rogers Centre and the Skydome Hotel. I believe the CN Tower in Toronto, a communications tower, will eventually be sold to the Walt Disney Corporation or perhaps Apple or Sirius Satellite.; Walt Disney and Viacom wanted to buy the Tower ten years ago.

Edmonton, Alberta's CN Tower.

The London, Ontario CN Tower was demolished during the year 2001.
Now I know:
Why my country is still called "The Dominion of Canada". A Dominion is the territory of a sovereign or government.
Why the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation planned to transfer all the CBC radio and television archives to the British Broadcasting Corporation.








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