Why were eighteen Agriculture Canada experimental farms were sold off.
Why did Department of Fisheries and Oceans abandon 1,000 lighthouses.
Why were 14 military bases decommissioned and sold to real estate developers or municipal governments.
Why are Canada's Maple Leaf Flag, Coat of Arms and the names of prominent people stripped from GOC buildings when they are privatized.
Why did the Mulroney government sell thousands of Canada Post Dominion Buildings and strip the word "Canada" from mailboxes, trucks, etc:
A comment by Toronto Member of Parliament Dennis Mills in the House of Commons, Ottawa. From: Hansard - House of Commons Debates- May 15, 1992. |
I understand why Moya Greene was the head of CN Real Estate, Canada Post and the United Kingdom's Royal Mail.
Why is Parks Canada thinking of privatizing $8.3 billion dollars worth of infrastructure in our National Parks.
Why are the CBC radio and TV archives being transferred to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Why did the CBC privatize 650 transmission towers, transmission sites and thousands of transmitters.
Why did the agency that sells Crown property have a leasehold interest in two London, England offices.
Why did Gordon Campbell sell the Macdonald House embassy in London, England for half a billion dollars.
Why did the National Capital Commission have no qualms about potentially demolishing Ottawa's Union Station, now the Conference Centre, see the website "NCC Watch".
Why is the National Capital Commission so determined to wring as much money out of LeBreton Flats as it can instead of creating a national park or building museums on the land. The NCC does not have to deposit the proceeds from the sale of land into our national treasury, the Consolidated Revenue Fund. So where does the money end up National Capital Commission? We're talking about money from the sale of:
the Gamelin Experimental Farm in Gatineau, Quebec;
the Greenbelt Research Farm in Nepean;
CFB Rockcliffe property,
Moffat Farm
the land near the Byward Market that the American Embassy now inhabits
The Daly Building
The Mackenzie King Bridge
The Laurier Avenue Bridge...the list goes on...
Senator Anne Cools and the Moffat Farm Citizens Coalition wanted to see the 86- acre Farm located between Prince of Wales Drive and the Rideau River near Mooney's Bay preserved as parkland. But you said the land was "surplus" to the needs of the federal government, National Capital Commission. The NCC has been criticized by Senate committees for behaving as private developer rather than a guardian of public property, you even appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board if anyone challenges your plans to funnel property to real estate entities. Ordinary people cannot challenge you at the Ontario Municipal Board, NCC, because you have a bottomless pit of taxpayer money at your disposal, it's like David fighting Goliath.
The actions of the National Capital Commission have created a lot of resentment and bitterness in Ottawa:
---the NCC has the power to expropriate land from ordinary citizens, property that is eventually sold to real estate companies.
--- the Greenbelt is nothing more than a cash cow, according to the NCC's official plan 18,600 acres are currently earmarked for residential and commercial development. Jacques Greber created the Greenbelt as a living memorial for Canadians who died fighting in foreign wars.
---the NCC ignored former Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitton's decree that no buildings in the downtown core would be higher than the Peace Tower at the Parliament Buildings.
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Why is all federal Crown property in this country being sold off---read Let the Future Begin(1997).
A Fraser Institute document. The think tank also wants to see the devolution of all National Parks in British Columbia to the provincial government of BC. |
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I think I understand why Crown property is called Crown property.
Why my country is always facing a national debt crisis or a national deficit---despite the fact that property worth billions of dollars is being divested. Is money from the sale of national real estate being deposited into the Consolidated Revenue Fund?
Why were the Kingston Prison in Portsmouth, England and the Kingston Prison in Ontario both decommissioned in 2013,
Why do oil and gas companies have drilling rights on CFB Suffield Alberta land?
I know why CFB Chibougamau, in Quebec was decommissioned--- the base was sitting on top of the Chibougamau Goldfields, and the Mulroney government sold it to a mining company through a Privy Council Order-in-Council.
I wonder why CFB Falconbridge near Sudbury Ontario was decommissioned.
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