I am fed up with the actions of the National Capital Commission.

     Dozens of Agriculture Canada Experimental Farms have been decommissioned and sold to residential and corporate developers. The Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa will never recover from encroachment by a new Hospital. Twenty five acres of Farm land are needed for hospital parking, and 12 acres will be siphoned off to builders of residential housing. The character of a popular neighbourhood in Ottawa called "Little Italy" will never be the same after Canada Lands Company builds a Distillery District on Booth. Somerset Ward councillor Catherine McKenney was an Ottawa Community Housing Director, and she promised that low-income housing will be included in the Natural Resources Canada redevelopment. Gladstone Village will be a massive geared to income project.
   In modern society, large populations are controlled by a theory called:
Problem, Reaction, Solution
Create a problem:  Build wall-to-wall condominiums along Carling Avenue in Ottawa by selling federally owned properties---the Experimental Farm; Dominion Observatory Campus; Energy, Mines and Resources Campus, 911 Carling Avenue and Queen Juliana Park at 870 Carling Avenue. The City of Ottawa owns the land where the Civic is located---after a new hospital is built, the City will fulfill its intensification agenda. I anticipate the demolition of the old Civic, with the exception of the Heart Institute, and the conversion of the 20 acres of land into a high density residential neighborhood.
Wait for the anticipated reaction: Carling Avenue will not be able to handle the volume of traffic created by intensification. The solution for the problem has already been mapped out...
Solution: Expand the Light Rail transit system. The Master Plan calls for the construction of high rise condominiums from 30 to 55 storeys high at every station or hub. Section 5.1.3 of the Preston-Carling Master Plan points out that "Carling Avenue will be a prominent, beautiful and comfortable multi-modal 'great street' with wide sidewalks and and bicycle lanes/tracks separated from vehicular movements..."  As I have said before, Carling is "my street" and part of my identity and I like it just the way it is. During the summer I can leave my windows open and the noise from cars does not bother me at all. Sometimes at night half an hour goes by and I do not hear any cars drive by.

  The Dominion Observatory Campus may be saved, but that calls for the sale of PWGSC and National Capital Commission land east of the new Civic property. (From: NCC Federal Site Review for the New Civic Campus of the Ottawa-November 2016.) Will the Civic take over the parking lot near Dow's Lake Pavilion? Will the Tulip Festival have to find a new location? I wouldn't put anything past the politicians and bureaucrats who run Crown corporations and believe that OUR property is THEIR property.

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It is important to maintain the integrity of the Ottawa Experimental Farm:
1.)  The Gamelin Experimental Farm in Gatineau, including the Animal Virus Laboratory was divested by the NCC.
2.)  The Greenbelt Research Farm was transferred from Agriculture Canada to the National Capital Commission. All of the animals and equipment are gone. "As of March 31, 1998, the Greenbelt Research Farm, which covers 1,200 (2,965 acres) of land bordered by Hunt Club Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Fallowfield Road and Greenbank Road ceased to function as an Agriculture and Agri Food Canada Research Centre."

The former 2,965 acre Greenbelt Research Farm, Ottawa. An Agriculture Canada Experimental Farm that no longer exists. The National Capital Commission is selling or leasing the Farm to various entities including a film studio and a transportation technology company.

The Daly Building was demolished. Many people had lofty visions for the land which is near the Parliament Buildings, Conference Centre and the Chateau. We wanted to see a park dedicated to John Lennon.