"Keep developers off the Farm, public says." Ottawa Citizen poll.

A front-page Ottawa Citizen newspaper article from August 3, 1998.

                                                                 A CITY GEM
     " A 1998 survey found that 74% of Ottawa-Carleton residents wanted to keep housing subdivisions off the Central Experimental Farm land, and even more (78%) did not want major office or commercial buildings there. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson was not surprised by the results, saying "I think the Central Experimental Farm is a real gem in the city and I don't think the public wants to take open and green space and have it developed." Results of the survey by the COMPAS research firm were reported in The Citizen on August 3, 1998." (Friends of the CEF Summer 2013 newsletter, page 10.)
In my opinion, the Carling Building cafeteria annex should be preserved and converted into a museum for Agriculture Canada's enormous and world-famous insect collection, and a visitor's centre..Which is what AAFC was planning to do.Also, the SJC Building housed one of the greatest agricultural libraries in the world:

I copied the pages from a book in Library and Archives, Wellington Street, Ottawa.

The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada never wanted to see the demolition of the Sir John Carling Building, removal of the Dominion Observatory, or the construction of a health care facility on the landscape.

Land that should be preserved:
---a 33.5 acre park that surrounds the former 960 Carling Avenue. The park was the site of Temporary Federal Buildings during World War 11.
---the $4 million dollar Dow's Lake parking lot, the site of Temporary Federal Buildings during World War 11.
---the entire CEF. There will be no clear cutting of trees, widening of roads and pathways, or removal of shrubs near the recently evicted DARA Tennis Club.

A December 17, 1946 Ottawa Journal article.