The most important reason why a hospital should not be built on the Experimental Farm in Ottawa.

  Our survival depends on the quality of the air we breathe.
   A group of Carleton University researchers conducted an environmental study of Ottawa's Experimental Farm, after the announcement was made that a hospital and huge parking lots would be built on the land.
The results of the study were published in the journal "Atmospheric Environment" Volume 218, 1 Dec. 2019, and the title of the report is "Does urban vegetation reduce temperature and air pollution concentration? Findings from an environmental monitoring study of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Canada."
 One finding elucidated from the study--- "Urban greenness, or vegetation plays an important role in reducing ambient air pollution and urban heat island temperatures."
Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun reporter Tom Spears wrote an article about the Carleton University study called "Why the air you breathe near the Experimental Farm is cleaner than elsewhere in Ottawa." (September 25, 2019.)
Twenty one years ago the National Capital Commission tried to buy the Agriculture Canada property for $1 dollar. "Behind closed doors, with no one allowed to watch and listen, members of the National Capital Commission ponder making deals with Nortel, battling El Nino and buying the Experimental Farm for $1 dollar" by Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen newspaper, August 24, 1998.
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The National Capital Commission is now the custodian of the former Greenbelt Research Farm in Nepean. The Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada property was decommissioned in 1998, and all of the animals and equipment were auctioned off. There should be a moratorium on the sale of this property.

The Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Farm in Nepean, Ontario. 1,200 hectares (2,965 acres) of land bordered by Hunt Club Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Fallowfield Road and Greenbank Road. Part of this property and the Natural Resources Canada Booth Street complex were on the shortlist as locations for a new Civic:1.) Greenbelt-A location at the southwest corner of West Hunt Club and Woodroffe Avenue, across from the Nepean Sportsplex.
2.) Booth Street Complex-Rochester Street to the west, Orangeville Street to the north, LeBreton Street south to the east and Carling Avenue to the south. Also includes 299 Carling. National Interest Land Mass. 10 hectares/26 acres.(From: NCC Federal Site Review for the new Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital - pages 25 and 27 of 256 pages.)

Research conducted at the Central Experimental Farm led to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change receiving the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan refused to give 700 acres of Ottawa's Central Experimental Farm to the NCC. (Ottawa Journal, 1975)