1.) The Quebec Bridge is a road, rail and pedestrian bridge that spans the St. Lawrence River. In the year 1993 the government of Canada gave the bridge to the Canadian National Railway, a Crown corporation. Now CN Rail and Bill Gates refuse to refurbish the bridge, see the hashtag #PaintYourBridgeBill.
"CN's responsibility for the Quebec Bridge does not encompass enhancing the heritage or aesthetic aspect of the bridge."
2.) Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - In 1967 the 614 hectare Blair Rifle Range in North Vancouver, British Columbia was sold for a dollar to the CMHC. The following properties were built by the taxpayers of Canada and then privatized by CMHC for millions of dollars:
Kingstonian Apartments, Kingston Ontario.
Habitat 67, designed by Moshe Safdie for Expo 67 in Montreal.
The Athletes Villages constructed for Olympic games in Montreal and Vancouver.
Rochdale College in Toronto and Ottawa's Rochdale College, Pestalozzi College.
Toronto's Regent Park.
3.) The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Headquarters on Jarvis Street were sold to a real estate company and the Ballet School of Canada via a Privy Council Order-in-Council:
Land Transfers-
Order-in-Council - Grant approval for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (a) to sell some 4,898 square metres of land at 263 and 303 Mutual Street in Toronto, Ontario to Context Real Estate Inc. and (b) to convey another 4,970 square metres of land at 354 and 372 Jarvis Street in Toronto to the National Ballet School, for a nominal sum.
In September of 1979 I appeared on the television program Take 30, featuring moderator Harry Brown, Dr. Peter Breggin (an American psychiatrist who wrote books about the dangers of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor drugs like Prozac); Toronto Star columnist Sidney Katz; Don Weitz, an activist and publisher of the magazine "Phoenix Rising"; lawyer Carla McKague, Scientologists and nurses.
I vividly remember walking through the halls of the Jarvis Street Complex---Glenn Gould recorded albums in the building, and the walls were lined with framed photographs of CBC luminaries like Barbara Frum, Pierre Berton, Fred Davis and Betty Kennedy. The building should have been converted into a museum. All of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's land, buildings and communications infrastructure are gone. According to a document prepared by Minister of Public Works Erik Nielsen, the CBC owned 485 buildings and 1, 870 hectares of land in 1985.
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| The Blair Rifle Range in North Vancouver was worth almost $80 million dollars. |
5.) The Mulroney government gave a massive military base in Summerside, Prince Edward Island to a profit-making corporation--- see the book "On the Take" by Stevie Cameron.
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