Save the Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa.

"Let the Future Begin" a 1997 document. In 1995 CN Real Estate became the Canada Lands Company.

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CN Real Estate was created in 1980 to sell the real estate assets of a Crown corporation called the Canadian National Railway. CN Real Estate (the people of Canada) owned billions of dollars worth of real property, including the following hotels:
Chateau Laurier - Ottawa
Queen Elizabeth - Montreal
Bessborough - Saskatoon
Fort Garry - Winnipeg
Hotel Vancouver - CNR and CPR.
Jasper Park Lodge - Alberta
Scribe Hotel - Paris
Hotel Beausejour - New Brunswick
Hotel Macdonald - Edmonton.

The people of Canada deserve answers to the following questions:
1.)  Why has Wellington Street in Ottawa not been designated a "Wellington Street Cultural Heritage District"? Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act gives municipalities the power to protect important cultural and tourism districts.
I believe that Wellington Street from the Library and Archives Building to the Chateau Laurier, is in dire need of protection by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, because:

The ByWard Market; Cathedral Hill; the Village of Rockcliffe Park and many other districts in the city are protected by Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act. The Parliamentary Precinct should be protected by Parks Canada; the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport;the City of Ottawa and the United Nations agency UNESCO, if necessary. The Rideau Canal is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Library and Archives Building, with its high ceilings; marble staircases and massive windows may be converted into condominiums when a new Archives building is constructed on LeBreton Flats.

During the 1960's the National Capital Commission contemplated demolishing the Conference Centre, a former train station across from the Chateau, see the website "NCC Watch" - Blunders.

On September 15, 2006 Minister of Public Works Michael Fortier conducted a review of 35 Crown-owned buildings. Most of 35 properties are gone now, they were either demolished (Agriculture Canada Headquarters); sold to Larco, or they are vacant. The Archives( 395 Wellington); the Wellington Building ( 180 Wellington) and the East Memorial Building (284 Wellington) were also on the "review" list.

The West Memorial Building (344 Wellington) and former American Embassy have been vacant for years.

2.)  Why does a Vancouver-based private company own the Chateau Laurier; Hotel Vancouver and seven Government of Canada buildings, including Revenue Agency headquarters in Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary? Is the Connaught Building at 555 Mackenzie Avenue Ottawa on the "hit list?'

3.)  Why does Parks Canada never intervene and stop the sale and demolition/alteration of National Historic Sites of Canada? I am talking about the Kingston Penitentiary and surrounding buildings; the 1,000 lighthouses that Fisheries and Oceans Canada recently divested; the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary in Laval, Quebec and the Dominion Public Building, One Front Street, Toronto:

Larco, the owner of the Chateau Laurier, is planning to add skyscrapers to the Dominion Public Building, next to Union Station, Toronto. 

4.) A Canadian developer would never desecrate the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles, or any American landmarks--- they would be run out of the country for showing disrespect for national symbols. The foreign born Lalji family, owners of Larco Investments, are not showing any respect for a Canadian landmark. The railway hotels are Canada's Taj Mahals and Eiffel Towers. Ugandan President Idi Amin would never have permitted the desecration of Uganda tombs, temples, shrines, landmarks and landscapes, especially by foreigners. The railway hotels are part of Canada's identity; our DNA, our collective souls; our geist, which is a German word meaning spirit/mind.

CN Real Estate (Canada Lands Company) demolished the London, Ontario CN Tower, see the video on YouTube "CN Building Implosion London On". CN Real Estate owned the Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa.

5..)  I believe it is an act of war to deliberately ruin a country's  heritage buildings, libraries and railway history and infrastructure. Now Parks Canada wants to privatize the infrastructure in our National Parks.

6.)  The CN Hotels were sold to the real estate arm of the Canadian Pacific Railway, called Marathon Realty. There have been lawsuits against Marathon Realty and the CPR. Also, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tried to return CPR property to the Crown, the people of Canada.
 Read the Stevie Cameron book "On the Take" especially the chapters about federal property. The Member of Parliament for Yukon, Erik Nielsen, told Stevie Cameron that the government owned at least $60 billion dollars worth of real estate when he was the Minister of Public Works from 1979/80.

The 1988 Privy Council Order in Council that resulted in the sale of the CNR Hotels, including the Hotel Macdonald, Edmonton; Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg; the Chateau. Before the divestiture, ordinary Canadians were not consulted; there were no debates in the House of Commons; no referendums...Prime Minister John Diefenbaker thought that Orders-in-Council were undemocratic. Entire military bases, armouries, veterans hospitals, Crown corporation property such as Post Offices; Agriculture Canada Experimental Farms; Expo 67 land; etc. are sold via Orders-in-Council.

The Chateau Laurier Hotel was a National Historic Site of Canada.

7...)  King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth dined at the Chateau Laurier in 1939, and Prince Charles and Princess Diana attended a Kiwanis Club Luncheon at the Chateau in June of 1983.

8.)  A condominium tower was built on land behind the Fort Garry Hotel, 222 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Fort Garry was also a CN Rail hotel. CN Real Estate sold the land as well as the air rights---that is why the Toronto waterfront has a proliferation of high rise towers that block the city's views of Lake Ontario.

An archival image of the Fort Garry Hotel, before a residential tower was built on the land behind it. A tunnel connected the hotel to Union Station across the street.

 Below: Photographs I took of Princess Diana visiting Parliament Hill, Ottawa.

Princess Diana on Parliament Hill.