Environmental groups have been trying to save the Experimental Farm for decades.

1974 Ottawa Journal articles.
The Federal Government is planning to sell Farm land so that a new Civic Hospital can be built on the site. However the National Capital Commission was opposed to that idea, Tunney's Pasture was the preferred location for a new hospital. See the YouTube video "Ottawa prepares to hand over historic federal farmland to corporate developers" January 21, 2017.