The sale of Experimental Farm Ottawa land.

Public Services and Procurement Canada was the owner of Queen Juliana Park, a 33 acre parcel of land that encompasses the Sir John Carling Building site. PSPC, the former PWGSC, is responsible for the Canada Lands Company. Before the Canada Lands Company was reactivated in 1995 PWGSC was "the biggest landlord in Canada."

The 33.5 acre Queen Juliana Park is part of the Ottawa Civic Hospital/Experimental Farm land deal.  According to the group "Reimagine Ottawa" the entire site will be occupied by a proliferation of high rise condominiums. People of Canada, this is OUR land. Yet politicians who represent us were stonewalled; meetings were held behind closed doors; land was rezoned residential and commercial; a Cultural Impact Study was never carried out. A traffic impact study was not conducted.

 Even the Auditor General of Canada stated that there was "inadequate public consultation" surrounding the land deal, see Petition 388.
The Dow's Lake Parking lot is worth $4 million dollars but it was given to the Civic, read Pierre  Poilievre comments in the House of Commons.

 The Civic Hospital recently evicted the DARA Tennis Club from Ottawa's Experimental Farm and Agriculture Canada employees had to uproot all the surrounding shrubs and try to replant them elsewhere.The brand new Civic property is close to the William Saunders Building. Ancient ginkgo trees are located near the William Saunders Building. Former Ottawa Mayors Jacquelin Holzman and Jim Durrell wrote a letter to the National Capital Commission stating that at least 500 trees will be clearcut by the Civic, and after 500 they "lost count." Will the Hospital CEO's facilitate the removal of the ginkgo trees, just as they ordered the removal of historic shrubs? The Greenbelt Alliance of Canada's Capital said that all of Isabella  Preston's crab apple trees that line Prince of Wales Drive are endangered because of the anticipated widening of Prince of Wales Drive. Many other roads and pathways are destined to be widened including Maple Lane.

An August 18, 1977 Ottawa Journal article.