Similarities between two Crown corporations.

1.) The NCC and Canada Lands Company are commercial Crown corporations that profit from the sale of Canadian federal, Crown property.
2.) They operate at "arms-length" from the government, from the people.
3.)  They have the power to remove heritage designations from nationally-owned properties; for example:
The Chateau Laurier Hotel on 1 Rideau Street, Ottawa was a Classified Federal Heritage Building and a National Historic Site of Canada. The National Capital Commission owned the Chateau Laurier during the mid-1960's. The hotel was a Crown asset until 1988 when it was sold to the real estate arm of the Canadian Pacific Railway through a Privy Council Order-in-Council. Orders-in-Council are called Executive Orders or Presidential Orders in the United States.

The Central Experimental Farm was a National Interest Land Mass and a National Historic Site of Canada. And most of the buildings were either Classified or Recognized heritage buildings, including the Sir John Carling Building (gone); Dominion Observatory Campus and Booth Barn. 

 Kingston Penitentiary and the Prison for Women were National Historic Sites of Canada.

In the year 2010 heritage preservationist Paul Oberman was arrested for lying down in front of a bulldozer that was trying to demolish an aircraft hangar at CFB Downsview in Toronto. Paul Oberman was instrumental in preventing the Canadian Pacific Railway from demolishing the Summerhill Train Station on Yonge Street in Toronto which is now an LCBO liquor dispensary. 

Building #55, after.

A Privy Council Order-in-Council from 1988.

4.)  Federal Crown property is sold via Privy Council Orders-in-Council. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker told an audience at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto that OIC's were undemocratic because they bypass Parliament and important political decisions are not debated in the House of Commons. 
5.) They ignore the will of the people. There is enormous opposition to the donation of Experimental Farm land to the Civic Hospital. Since the year 1974 politicians and organizations have been trying to save the Farm near Carling Avenue, Ottawa---
Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau.
Agriculture Ministers Eugene Whelan, Bud Olson and Gerry Ritz.
  Rideau Valley Conservation Authority.
 The Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Association.
 Reimagine Ottawa, a group that includes writer and politician Clive Doucet.
Protect the Farm-Home|Facebook.
Save the Central Experimental Farm - Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.
Saving the Central Experimental Farm|Heritage Ottawa.
COALITION TO SAVE THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM.
Friends of the Farm (1970's).
Agricultural Institute of Canada.
Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and Health.
Save the Farm - Protest to save our trees and greenspace - 2017 - Ecology Ottawa.
Petition - Save Ottawa's Precious Urban Space-Change.org.
Petition - Protection of the Central Experimental Farm as a research facility and a national historic site of Canada.
National Trust for Canada - Top 10 Endangered Places List for 2015-Central Experimental Farm.
National Farmers Union - Ontario.
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The government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau wanted to save a vacant parcel of land near the Connaught Building in downtown Ottawa:

This land was destined to be part of Major's Hill Park. (Photograph is from "Dreams of  Major's Hill Park-1969-1970" Urbsite.)

Concrete barriers have taken over an entire street in front of the Embassy.

However, the National Capital Commission sold the parcel to the American government. The American Embassy has been nicknamed "The Battleship" and "Fort Knox North" and was probably designed by President Bill Clinton---the embassy is strikingly similar to the William J. Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas and President Clinton appeared at the official opening of the embassy.
The National Capital Commission and the owners of nearby businesses including the Chateau Laurier Hotel were opposed to keeping the land beneath the Daly Building public---they said that a park would attract "vagrants":
     The Chairman: Do you know the position, with respect to this park,of the Byward Market Business Improvement Association, which I see represents 350 businesses in the area?  
     Mr. Emard-Chabot: They would be against.
     The Chairman: I take it that the Chateau Laurier would be against it as well.
     Mr. Emard-Chabot: I received a letter last week indicating they are not in favour of a park.
 (from "SENATE OF CANADA-Ottawa - Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources-Issue 5-Evidence-February 17, 1998.)
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I wonder if the current owners of the Chateau Laurier Hotel are lobbying for the sale of Major's Hill Park.
The owners of the Chateau may complain that Canada Day celebrations, the Tulip Festival and people who are "loitering" are disturbing the peace of strata or condominium owners who inhabit their new addition. And Larco can expand their investment through purchasing park land from the NCC. Larco is already planning to chop down trees that block the views of Major's Hill Park from the Chateau.
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The National Capital Commission wants to preserve the entire Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.
     "The Central Experimental Farm, established in 1886, is a unique working farm in the heart of an urban region. The Experimental Farm is open to the public throughout the year, along with the adjacent 26-hectare Arboretum. This central asset of the Capital's urban green space contributes to biodiversity and reinforces the link from the Rideau Canal to the Ottawa River ecosystems. In the coming years, the long-term ecological and scientific outlook for preserving the Central Experimental Farm and the Arboretum should be re validated in an update to the existing 2005 Master Plan." (From: "The Plan for Canada's Capital 2017-2067" - Page 40 out of 95 pages.)
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The NCC and the David Suzuki Foundation conducted a study that documented the importance of green spaces in the Nation's Capital:
     "Benefits not measured according to traditional market metrics:

• air quality control
• water filtration
• climate regulation
• carbon storage
• wildlife habitat
• erosion control

(From: "Natural Capital: The economic value of National Capital Commission green spaces".)
A photograph I took of writer Andy Russell; Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau and Agriculture Minister Bud Olson arriving at the Lethbridge, Alberta airport - 1972. CBC News reporter Ron Collister can be seen in the photo on the right, in the background.