The Central Experimental Farm will remain as important as it is today and it has been in the past.( Evidence from the House of Commons.)

STANDING COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD-May 13, 1999.
(Google: Evidence -AGRI -(36-1) Number 84-House of Commons of Canada Dr. Morrissey.)

Mr. Ian Murray (Lanark-Carleton, Lib.)-"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to ask a question of Mr. Morrissey, head of the research branch. It's about the future of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. I was wondering if Mr. Morrissey could bring us up to date on what's being done there in terms of research right now and also on what you see in the future for the Central Experimental Farm."

Dr. Brian Morrissey: "May we divide the farm into two portions, Mr. Chairman? There is the Central Experimental Farm, which is on Carling Avenue, and there is also the greenbelt farm, which is out in Nepean, just opposite the Nepean Sportsplex. In the 1995 budget, we in effect shut down pretty well all of our operations out at the greenbelt farm and lost about 350 people there.There is an arrangement with those lands. Legally, the first right on them if we declare them surplus to our needs-and we will declare them surplus or pretty well most of them-is that they go for $1 dollar to the National Capital Commission."
"We have, in effect, turned them over to the National Capital Commission and we're negotiating details on how they'll take them over. They'd like to get some money in addition to getting those lands, but legally they have first right.They get those lands first. The minister's instruction to me is that those lands stay in the public domain, so my sense is that the National Capital Commission will take them and that if they don't the lands will stay in the public domain. That is my instruction at this point in time. We likely will keep a little of that land because we need it ourselves, but right now it looks like the bulk of it will go to the National Capital Commission."
     "The Central Experimental Farm proper, downtown on Carling Avenue, will continue to be our Central Experimental Farm for this part of the country. The work that we are doing on corn, on small grains for Eastern Canada, on biosystematics-classifying insects so we can identify the weeds and fungi and so on-will all remain centralized on the Central Experimental Farm."

Mr. Ian Murray:" Okay, so looking at the long term, you expect that it will remain as important as it is today and it has been in the past.'' (Emphasis mine-AC)

Dr. Brian Morrissey: "Yes". (Emphasis mine-AC).

Mr. Ian Murray: "Okay. Thanks."

Dr. Brian Morrissey receiving the Public Service Outstanding Achievement Award from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada; and by The Right Honourable Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada. The award is the highest commendation in the public service and was presented to Dr. Morrissey at Rideau Hall, Ottawa on October 16, 2001.

An open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, asking the Prime Minister to save Ottawa's Experimental Farm. The letter was signed by Dr. Brian Morrissey and many other scientists:

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The Greenbelt Research Farm during the early 1970's. The property encompasses 2,965.265 acres of land and is bordered by Hunt Club Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Fallowfield Road and Greenbank Road.

The Greenbelt Research Farm was an expansion of the CEF:

Cabinet Conclusions, Privy Council Office-Item 16417-October 19, 1957.