Privatized Canadian federal buildings.

1.)  The government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker either sold or gave away a Canada Post building in Toronto to E. P. Taylor. A company owned by newspaper baron Conrad Black occupied  the landmark for years.

10 Toronto Street, Toronto Ontario. (Photo from Wikipedia).

2.) The Mulroney government privatized the RCMP Headquarters at 255 Jarvis Street in Toronto, and moved all the staff to London, Ontario. The edifice is now a high rise hotel, the Grand Hotel and Suites.
3.)  The Hamilton, Ontario Canadian National Railway Station is a banquet hall and filming location---for the second and third seasons of "The Good Witch" starring Catherine Bell; and a movie called "Stockholm" starring Ethan Hawke.
4.)  Brian Mulroney decommissioned the Canada Post Mail Distribution Centre on 30 Bay Street Toronto, so that the Air Canada Centre could be constructed.

My Dad's trip to Germany in 1968.

             

Cathedral Hauptstadt, Berlin. (A 1968 postcard)

             

Was a decommissioned federal armoury a filming location for "Suits"?

The Windsor Armoury was decommissioned and sold to the University of Windsor.

The Kingston Armoury, 100 Montreal Street, Kingston.

The Cathcart Armory, 691 Cathcart Street in Montreal.

The Windsor Arms Hotel at 18 St. Thomas Street, Toronto. Notice the similarities between the hotel and federal armouries in Ottawa; Montreal; and Kingston Ontario.

Two cast members of "Suits" in the Windsor Arms Hotel.

The Wallis House Armoury, Ottawa, was converted into high-end condominiums.

The Canada Lands Company divested land that should be part of a Montreal Memorial.

More than 7,000 Irish immigrants and health workers are buried on a plot of land that was recently sold by the Government of Canada. The Black Rock monument in Pointe Saint Charles, Montreal honours the immigrants who died from typhus, after travelling to Canada to escape from the Irish famine.
A Roman Catholic Priest was recently summoned to bless the land in Pointe Saint Charles, before Hydro Quebec employees started preliminary work.
Hydro Quebec workers found evidence of human remains on the land.
The Government of Canada should reclaim this sacred land. Immediately.

Black Rock, the Montreal Irish Monument.

 A few years ago I visited Quebec City, and I was astonished when I find out that the heavy metal group "Metallica" was giving a concert on the grounds of The Plains of Abraham. Celine Dion and the pretentiously named "Sir" Paul McCartney also entertained crowds of people on this former battleground. The Plains of Abraham are not an entertainment venue, another Air Canada Centre or SkyDome/ Rogers Centre. People should not be cavorting on a battlefield where soldiers died and were injured. To dance on someone's grave is to rejoice that they are dead. I'll bet that "Sir Paul" will never perform at Vimy Ridge in France or a Civil War memorial in Virginia.

Filming locations for the television program "Suits" - Toronto.

Meghan Markle and Jessica Mulroney in the Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay Street. Jessica Mulroney is the daughter-in-law of the Canadian prime minister who demolished the Canada Post mail sorting depot at 40 Bay Street, so that the Air Canada Centre could be constructed.

 40 Bay Street was Crown property, owned by the People of Canada. But Prime Minister Brian Mulroney privatized the Canada Post mail sorting depot in 1989. The Art Deco landmark is now a sports arena, the Air Canada Centre/Scotiabank Arena. Brian Mulroney not only sold 40 Bay Street, he divested thousands of Canada Post properties, known as Dominion Buildings. That is why Canada Post operates out of gas stations and Shopper's Drug Mart pharmacies. The Higginbotham Dominion Building in Lethbridge, Alberta and the Almonte, Ontario post office are the latest federal properties being "divested".

The Trump Tower, 325 Bay Street. The Trump Tower is now called the St. Regis Hotel, and was built on former Canadian National Railway land at Bay and Adelaide. CN Real Estate, reactivated in the year 1995, privatized 2,800 acres of railway land in downtown Toronto.

The de Havilland Aircraft building, CFB Downsview. The ad is from my Dad's 1968 magazine "Canadian Armed Forces Review."

Meghan Markle at her office on the set of the TV show "Suits". All of the interior shots are filmed at the Downsview Park Studios, 40 Carl Hall Road, North York. CFB Downsview was a Canadian military base. The Canadian Air and Space Museum was located at the de Havilland Aircraft Building, 65 Carl Hall Road. The de Havilland Building was repurposed and is now Centennial College Downsview, an aeronautical university.

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe Street. The  Hall is located on Canadian Pacific Railway land that was sold by the real estate arm of the CPR, Marathon Realty. Marathon wanted to demolish Union Station in Toronto and several other buildings to create "Metro City". Marathon also wanted to flatten Montreal's Windsor Station and the North Toronto Summerhill Station. Union Station, Roy Thomson Hall, the John Street Roundhouse, Royal York Hotel and Dominion  Public Building are now part of the "Union Station Heritage Conservation District.", protected by the Ontario provincial government. The photo is from Season 5 of the tv show "Suits".

The Don Jail, 550 Gerrard Street East. (Photo from the Torontoist.) The Ontario government wanted to demolish the Don Jail during the 1970's, but heritage groups and politicians John Sewell and David Crombie saved the landmark. Season 6, Episode 1, Mike is in prison.

Meghan Markle at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. The Mulroney government sold all of the Canadian National hotels to the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1988 (Chateau Laurier, Jasper Park Lodge, Hotel Macdonald. Fort Garry Hotel, Bessborough, etc.) Then all of the CNR and CPR hotels were sold to a multinational corporation called Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

The Bay-Adelaide Centre, 333 Bay Street. (Photo from Toronto Star.) The tower is located on the grounds of "The Stump" or "The Bunker", a symbol of the 1990's recession.

"The Stump" or "The Bunker" lasted from 1991 until 2006.

The interior of Metro Hall, 55 John Street. From Season 5 of "Suits".

An exterior view of Metro Hall, a 27-storey building created to house Municipality of Toronto employees. The Mayor of Toronto in 2013 suggested that Metro Hall should be privatized.

From Season 5 of the TV show "Suits". The Parade Condos at CityPlace.

CityPlace is on Canadian National Railway land in Toronto. This article is from the Globe and Mail newspaper." The Condos of Fort York" were built on the grounds of the National Historic Site of Canada. I wonder when "The Condos of the Plains of Abraham"   or "The Condos of Silo No. 5 in Montreal" will be created.

Do the people of Canada own Crown property? Is "Crown property" in Commonwealth countries really owned by the Monarch, or another entity?  The Governor General of Canada has to approve the Orders-in-Council that privatized:
military bases
 penitentiaries;
 veterans hospitals;
 National Capital Commission Greenbelt land;
 all Canada Mortgage and Housing properties-Habitat 67; 800 Montreal Road, Ottawa...
 Expo 67 pavilions, theme parks and land;
 Olympic venues in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver; and athlete's villages;
 1,000 lighthouses including Peggy's Cove and the Bonaventure Lighthouse;
 Canada Post Dominion buildings;
 Health Canada laboratories in Winnipeg;
 Canadian National Railway properties;
 Agriculture Canada Experimental Farms, I have counted 18 Farms that have been sold off;
 Armouries in Montreal, Windsor, Ontario and Ottawa (Wallis House, Lees Avenue, Oak Street armoury in Little Italy); and Denison Armoury in Downsview, Toronto.
 RCMP buildings;
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation real estate;
The American head of Fox News and Paramount, Barry Diller, wanted to buy the CBC's 600 transmission towers, thousands of transmitters and transmission sites;
 Rochdale College in Toronto;
Coast Guard Rescue Stations;
 Royal Roads Military College in Vancouver...

 The Governor General of Canada is the Queen of Great Britain's representative in Canada.
Are Canadian Maple Leaf Flags placed on federal government buildings to make us believe that we collectively own billions of dollars worth of Crown real estate? Is there a nation-wide news blackout, to keep us unaware of the massive loss of federal property to:
 a Saudi Arabian prince;
 New York investors;
 American President Donald Trump;
 real estate corporations;
 astronaut and Cirque de Soleil founder Guy Laliberte;
 pension funds;
 an American amusement park company that bought La Ronde at Expo 67.
Hydro Quebec.
creators of sporting venues - hockey, baseball, Olympic stadiums.

Who is encouraging Parks Canada to sell $8 Billion dollars worth of infrastructure in our National Parks?
  I have spent 12 years of my life compiling information about Crown assets.Because I do not want to be a tenant in my own country.
I do not want to see "No Trespassing" and "Private Property" signs at the entrances to the National Parks; federal buildings; museums; the Parliament Buildings and Parliament Hill (yes, a few years ago there was an attempt to ban the public from Parliament Hill in Ottawa "For security reasons")

(Above) The Privy Council Order-in-Council that transferred 12.5 hectares of CFB Downsview land to the Canada Lands Company. The CLC profits from the privatization of Canadian Federal Crown properties. The Governor General of Canada, the British Monarch's representative in this country, approves the Orders-in-Council.

Canadian Governor General Roland Michener and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada visit CFB Petawawa-1969.