The Civic Hospital/Experimental Farm land deal should be the focus of a public inquiry.

Reasons why:
1.)   The Government of Canada may be planning to decommission the entire Experimental Farm.
---In 2005 the feds wanted to "get out of the business" of running experimental farms.
---The National Capital Commission attempted to buy the property for $1 dollar in 1998 according to an Ottawa Citizen news article by Tom Spears.
---In 1997 the Chretien government wanted to demolish 50 of the property's 83 buildings.
2.)   The National Capital Commission has the power to remove heritage designations from federal, publicly-owned property.
3.)  Back in the late-1990's Ottawa City councillors knew that a "wall of condos" would line both sides of Carling Avenue. They must have known that the Farm and the Natural Resources Canada complex on Booth Street would be the focus of massive redevelopment.
4.)   The Civic is lobbying for more than 60 acres of land "in order to expand."
5.)   Several acres of land donated to the hospital will be rezoned from institutional to general urban area.

6.)   The City of Ottawa's Urban Design Review Panel was fooled into believing the hospital would be much smaller:
     "The Panel has concerns with the scale of the proposed presentation, particularly considering the initial presentation eluded to a Scandinavian approach to a hospital complex - at a much more human scale. The size and mass of the proposed building has the potential to create a significant barrier in the form of a large wall that is disconnected and out of scale with the existing fabric nearby." (From: Urban Design Review Panel-March 1, 2018. (930 Carling Avenue and 520 Preston Avenue).
7.)   During the year 1998 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada accepted a recommendation by the  Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to designate the Central Experimental Farm as "a cultural landscape of historical and architectural significance." (From: Heritage Ottawa|50 Years/50 Stories - Number 23.)
8.)  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada had plans for the Sir John Carling Building site:
     "Redevelopment of the site of the Sir John Carling Building, to serve as a place where the public can meet and learn from one another, with a CEF Visitor's Centre and facilities for the National Collections."
9.)   A federal law called "The National Capital Act" (1985) gives the National Capital Commission the power and duty to protect historic buildings and landscapes.
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10 (2) The Commission may, for the purposes of this Act, (g) administer, preserve and maintain any historic place or historic museum.
The CEF is known as a museum without walls.(AC, creator of this blog savecfbrokcliffe.)
10.)  A plebiscite is "a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler." The City of Ottawa, but especially residents of Little Italy and the Civic Hospital neighbourhood will be deeply affected if a hospital is built on the CEF. They should have the power to stop redevelopment projects that negatively impact their quality of life---take away green space; flood the area with noise, light and environmental pollution; overwhelm local highways and streets; cut off views of a UNESCO World Heritage Site called the Rideau Canal.

1998 suggestions pertaining to the future of the Farm. Not one person suggested that a hospital should be located on the land.