Monday, November 19, 2018

Various government holdings.

A republic is defined as "a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives":
If my country was independent:
1.) The Canadian National Railway would still be a Crown corporation, known as "The People's Railway". Dame Moya Greene and the CN Real Estate are responsible for the sale of 100,000 acres of CNR land, thousands of railway stations, bridges, dams, hotels, tunnels, roundhouses, CN Towers in Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton and London, Ontario, transportation infrastructure.... After hollowing out the CNR, Dame Moya Greene became the head of the Royal Mail in England, where she basically sold off Royal Mail property, fought with unions and laid off thousands of employees.

3.)  The will of the people should be respected regarding the sale of Crown property.The Governor-General of Canada, who is the Monarch's representative in this country, signs the Privy Council Orders-in-Council that denationalize government land and buildings. 
One of the Privy Council Orders-in-Council that resulted in the transfer of the massive CFB Downsview.
Crown property that was denationalized:
The CN Tower, Toronto.
Military bases in Ottawa; Toronto; Calgary, Moncton; Pleasantville; St. Hubert; London, Ontario; Jericho Beach, Vancouver; Kapyong Barracks, Winnipeg; Chilliwack BC; Shannon Park, Halifax; CFB Namao, Alberta; CFB Edmonton; CFS Albro Lake...
Prisons and Corrections Canada Headquarters - Prison for Women, Kingston Ontario; Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary, Laval Quebec; Corrections Canada buildings in Kingston; soon (?) Kingston Penitentiary.
Offices - CN offices, London, England.
Museums - Old War Museum, Sussex Drive Ottawa.

Hotels (CNR) - Scribe Hotel, Paris France; Chateau Laurier, Ottawa; Hotel Macdonald Edmonton; Queen Elizabeth Hotel Montreal (where John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang and recorded "Give Peace a Chance"); Bessborough Hotel Saskatoon; Jasper Park Lodge; Hotel Vancouver; Fort Garry Hotel Winnipeg;

The following train stations were slated for demolition at one time: Windsor Station in Montreal; Conference Centre in Ottawa; Union Station in Toronto; Summerhill Station in North Toronto.

4.)CPR land, hotels and buildings would have returned to the Crown. Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada, gave the Canadian Pacific Railway $25 million dollars and 25 million acres of land, on the condition that any railway property that was no longer needed by the railway would  return to the Crown. 
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau wanted to see Canadian Pacific Railway property in Banff Alberta
returned to the Crown:

Reversionary land in Banff, Alberta.
. Gordon Campbell became a High Commissioner to Great Britain, and he sold a Canadian Embassy called Macdonald House in London, England for half a billion dollars, to a Mumbai-based company.  

Hotels (CPR) - Royal York Toronto; Banff Springs Hotel; Chateau Lake Louise; Palliser Hotel Calgary (a tunnel connected to the Palliser Hotel to a CPR train station across the street. The station was demolished to make way for the Calgary Tower.) Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City; Empress Hotel, Victoria BC.

5.)
"Let the Future Begin" 1997.
The politicians and agencies that want to denationalize Crown property always say "A country does not need bricks and mortar to govern." (The Fraser Institute; "Let the Future Begin" document).
I have compiled a list of properties that Canadians will lose, to foreign billionaires like Bill Gates; royalty and countries like India and China that need land to grow food and bio-fuel for their own people:
The List
All the National Parks - a secret memo revealed that Parks Canada may sell $8 billion dollars worth of property, including bridges, roads, highways, nature trails, culverts, etc.

Experimental Farms - experimental farms in Levis Quebec; Charlottetown Prince Edward Island; Delhi Ontario. Eventually all experimental farms will be gone. 
Royal Canadian Mint - Ottawa and Winnipeg.
Revenue Canada Building, the Connaught Building Ottawa, which resembles a castle.
The Plains of Abraham, Quebec City, Quebec.
Fort Henry, Kingston Ontario.
Martello Towers

Penitentiaries - Kingston Pen; Collins Bay Institution; Millhaven; Dorchester Pen in New Brunswick and Stony Mountain in Manitoba will be gone. Literally. Federal properties lose all heritage designation when they are transferred.
Canada Place, Vancouver - constructed for Expo '86, the pavilion features iconic sails.
Campuses that house Government of Canada departments - the Booth Street Complex; Tunney's Pasture and Confederation Heights, all in Ottawa, will be taken over.
The Booth Street Complex, Ottawa in 1983.
Thousands more Government of Canada buildings will be sold. The Higginbotham Dominion Building, Lethbridge Alberta is currently on the market.

Dominion Observatories
More Crown corporations will be privatized, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Canada Post will be sold off. CBC executives Robert Rabinovitch and Carole Taylor planned to transfer all the CBC television and radio archives to the British Broadcasting Corporation. As if the people of Britain would be interested in Front Page challenge, Hockey Night in Canada; Ian and Sylvia and Anne Murray specials; This Hour has Seven Days, and Take 30...American media titan Barry Diller was interested in obtaining the CBC's 600 transmission towers and thousands of transmitters. Canadians will never know if Barry Diller bought the communications infrastructure, because of a non-disclosure agreement. I wonder how much money we have to fork over for reruns of Coronation Street.
 The Fraser Institute has been calling for the devolution/sale of federal property for years, see the following documents:
Fraser Institute document.
Fraser Institute document.

Health Canada Laboratories - currently on the market, a lab near Winnipeg's Royal Canadian Mint.

A true Canadian would never have abandoned our 1,000 National Lighthouses. Fisheries and Oceans Canada privatized the entire lighthouse portfolio.
I am in front of the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, Nova Scotia.-2015.
Forestry Canada - The Forintek Building on 800 Montreal Road Ottawa is gone. Now the land has been sold.

Canadian Embassies - Dozens of Canadian embassies are gone. Now Great Britain and Canada share space and services in embassies throughout the world, see the newspaper article "Canada, U.K. to cut costs by sharing embassies abroad" (thestar.com, 2012). "Saving money" is always touted as a reason for denationalizing Crown assets. The terms "national sovereignty"; "public accountability" and "public service" are not used. The Crown corporations Canada Post, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation were created to serve the people of this nation, and to unite us... From coast to coast to coast. The people of Churchill, Manitoba were isolated for a year and a half because a railway sold the only tracks in the vicinity to an American company that refused to repair the tracks. Thankfully, the government of Canada recently bought the railway tracks and many members of the community cried tears of joy and held a street party, after the restoration of rail service.

The CN Tower, Toronto - Millions of tax dollars were spent to build the communications tower/tourist attraction. As I have said before, Walt Disney Corporation and Viacom wanted to buy the tower a decade ago. I would not be surprised if  the Sirius Satellite corporation buys the landmark. Of course, we will never know who the buyer is, because of non-disclosure agreements.


Fisheries and Oceans Canada - The DFO is moving a Coast Guard base in Kingston, Ontario so the CLC can redevelop the Kingston Penitentiary; DFO lands, and a city-owned park that was a gift to the people of Kingston, from Ontario tax payers, during the 1976 Olympics. The Kingston Penitentiary was a National Historic Site of Canada and a Classified Federal Heritage Building. A  Kingstonian plans to convert the Prison for Women into condominiums. 
A Fisheries and Oceans property in Vancouver, BC.
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Former CPR properties:

1.)Montreal, Quebec
Adirondack Subdivision
Angus Shops 
Cremazie
Dorval Station Grounds.
Drummond and Laugauchetiere Street - Land and Buildings.
Hochelaga Yard
Jean-Talon Train Station - sold to the City of Montreal in 1984.
Le Chateau Champlain Hotel
Mile End Yard (Village of Cote St. Louis).
Papineau Yard
Place Viger
Place du Canada and the IBM-Marathon Tower were built on CPR land.
Pointe Claire -Pt. Valois Station
St. Denis Yard
Wentworth Golf Course - Ville St. Pierre and City of Lachine.
Windsor Station

2.) Toronto, Ontario
The Dufferin Mall was constructed on CPR land.
Bathurst North of Lakeshore.
Cherry Street Yard, Fronting Mill Street.
Fez City Yards, Bathurst.
Fronting Yonge Street and Shaftesbury Avenue with Land and Buildings.
Front and Beachell Streets.
Fronting on Front Street and Spadina Avenue.
Mile 4.03 - North Toronto, Shaw Street.
Parkdale Yards, Fronting King Street.
Summerhill Train Station - CPR wanted to bulldoze the building to create space for 700 houses. But they faced tremendous opposition from the community, a saga that is documented in the 1971 book "Marlborough Marathon - One Street Against a Developer" by Canadian historian J.L. Granatstein.
Royal York Hotel
Union Station -  may have been converted to "Metro City". Eventually the City of Toronto bought the irreplaceable landmark.
Roy Thomson Hall was built on CPR land.
West Toronto Yard - Keele and West Toronto.

3.) Calgary, Alberta
(Telecommunications Buildings Site) A parcel of land at the South East corner of 2nd Street S.E. and 9th Avenue S.E. Book value - $1.00 dollar.
Palliser Hotel.
4.)Quebec City
Le Chateau Frontenac Hotel
Gare du Palais - (Palace Station).
I am in the Calgary Tower, 1973.
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February 15, 1965 - Canada's Maple Leaf Flag is raised on Parliament Hill for the first time. The Maple Leaf Flag symbolizes unity, tolerance and peace.

1980 - "O Canada" became my country's official national anthem.

October 27, 1982 - Dominion Day on July 1st became Canada Day.
















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