See the Global News video
"Parks Canada removes trees along Lachine Canal". (October 25 2018) Apparently the trees were perfectly healthy.
Eighty "non-core" bridges may be sold by Parks Canada, including bridges that span the Chambly, Lachine and Rideau Canals (the Hog's Back Bridge in Ottawa). See articles by CBC reporter Dean Beeby.
The privatization of our dams, highways, roads, nature trails, culverts and bridges has been given the moniker "asset recycling". President Bill Clinton called the sale of hundreds of American military bases "defence conversion". Guess who profited from "defence conversion"---the Walt Disney Corporation created a museum on the former Presidio military base in San Francisco, and the Packard Bell corporation built a computer assembly plant on a decommissioned Texas military base.
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The Montreal Biodome was the Expo 67 American Pavilion. The Lachine Canal and Biodome were filming locations for a Will Farrell and Jon Heder movie "Blades of Glory". My Dad is wearing the polka dot shirt and striped pants.
The Government of Canada sold the Mackenzie King and Laurier Avenue bridges to the City of Ottawa. The infrastructure and land were sold through a Privy Council Order-in-Council signed by the Governor General of Canada.
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