1.) Encourage the United Nations to designate the Village of Portsmouth in Kingston a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2.) Deactivate the Canada Lands Company. The term "surplus land" is an oxymoron. The Canadian National Railway should never have been privatized in the first place, we are still paying for that folly---residents of Churchill, Manitoba were isolated for a year and a half because CN Rail sold the railway tracks to a Denver-based company that couldn't be bothered to repair the tracks. Bill Gates refuses to repair a bridge in Montreal. CN Rail is a multinational conglomerate, they care about money, their investors; they couldn't care less if their actions negatively affect the citizens of my country. The CNR was our Jewel in the Crown, "The People's Railway".
3.) Return the 1,000 lighthouses to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Otherwise, the lighthouses will be vulnerable to deterioration.
4.) Do not listen to the Fraser Institute and KPMG, the entities that want to see the denationalization of GOC properties including our National Parks.
5.) Do not demolish any more buildings at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Pen in Laval, Quebec. The prison was a filming location for several movies, and the site could be transformed into a popular tourist attraction.
6.) Abolish the Office of the Governor General of Canada and the Queen's Privy Council of Canada. We are no longer a colony of Great Britain.
7.) If our land is sold, make the process transparent. Crown buildings and land are currently sold through Privy Council Orders in Council. Newspaper reporters have to file Freedom of Information requests, and rely on whistle blowers, to find out if government property is being divested. And that is often after the fact, when it is too late to stop the process. A secret memo revealed the fact that $8 billion dollars worth of Parks Canada property may be sold.
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