The Federal Conservatives plan to sell government real estate if they are elected.

Supposedly this endeavor will help to balance the budget. Why this plan will not work:
1.)  The National Capital Commission does not have to deposit money from the sale of property into Canada's treasury, the Consolidated Revenue Fund. Read "Chairman Beaudry Testifies-NCC Watch." "The NCC has an acquisition and disposal fund that enables us to retain the proceeds from selling surplus property that no longer plays a capital role and for acquiring and rehabilitating assets."
2.)  The Mulroney and Chretien governments privatized billions of dollars worth of federal property.
3.)  Many neighbourhoods in Ottawa are fed up with the never-ending sale of government land and buildings.People in Little Italy are facing the redevelopment of the Booth Street Complex; the loss of nearby Experimental Farm land and the construction of a new hospital; an Ottawa Community Housing project called "Gladstone Village" on a former DND armoury site; the loss of a 33-acre park at Dow's Lake and a wall of condos that are spreading like a cancer along Carling Avenue.
4.)  Politicians John Baird and John Manley want to see LeBreton Flats turned into an urban park, a green space, "Ottawa's Central Park."
5.)  Canadians do not even own the CN Tower. And the Harper government privatized all of Canada's government lighthouses. How many more military bases, office buildings, armouries, Agriculture Canada Experimental Farms, Coast Guard rescue bases, RCMP detachments, penitentiaries, post office mail sorting plants, Health Canada laboratories and Canada Revenue Agency buildings are we going to lose? Who is lining up to take possession of Crown assets that were built by my ancestors? Walmart. Amazon has the title to a Vancouver Canada Post depot. Larco. Prince al Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia took over the Canadian National Railway hotels. They must think we are fools. We are witnessing a peace time invasion of Canadian land and buildings.

As I have said before, the royal family in England owns hundreds of thousands of acres of land at their castles in Balmoral, Windsor and Sandringham. And the Duke of Cornwall's estate encompasses 135,000 acres of land.
 Our children and grandchildren are just as important as the royal family children. Yet Canadian children are being disinherited from their birthright when federal Crown assets are privatized.