The NCC has already sold Experimental Farm land for a subdivision.

Now they want to give 60 acres to a hospital that is already asking for more property so that they can expand.
A timeline - A March 19, 1954 Canadian Privy Council Cabinet document confirms that "The Central Experimental Farm should remain an open area in perpetuity."

A March 19, 1954 Cabinet document.

 The National Historic Site encompassed 1,200 acres in 1974 according to Ottawa Journal newspaper articles "Conservation groups back the Farm" and "Farm out for homes: Whelan."

Front page Ottawa Journal article. Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan said the CEF was "untouchable" and it would be sold "over my dead body."

1988- 91 acres were sold to the City of Ottawa.

2019 - The "Federal Directory of Real Property" website states that the Farm encompasses 1,050 acres. I believe the website is outdated because the Jean-Charles Chapais Agriculture Canada property in Levis, Quebec is included in the directory. And it was decommissioned years ago.