Who is running the Department of Public Works in Ottawa?

Public Services and Procurement Canada (the former DPW) is now planning to redevelop land and buildings directly across the street from Parliament Hill. Some of the 11 buildings on Block 2 will be demolished:

Block 2 is outlined in red. The photo is from a CBC article on the Internet "Major overhaul in store for entire block facing Parliament" by Ryan Patrick Jones, February 3, 2020.

 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appropriated all of the buildings in Blocks A, B and C during the year 1973.
  Senator Serge Joyal is trying to save important landmarks in the Parliamentary Precinct, through a Bill called "An Act to Amend the National Capital Act (buildings or works of National Significance." (First Reading December 2019.)
 Before any wrecking crews and architects descend upon MY PROPERTY I suggest that the Department of Public Works wait until Bill S-203 winds its way through the bureaucracy.
Public Works and Procurement Canada is permitting the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada to select the three designs, and then the feds will select a winner.
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Public Services and Procurement Canada is trying to pull a fast one on the people who live in the Nation's Capital, they want to create "Metro Centre North.". Metro Centre was a massive Toronto redevelopment project during the 1960's and 1970's.
Highlights, if you want to call it that, of the CP Rail and CN Rail urban renewal project:
1.)  Demolition of an entire city block of buildings on Front Street including Union Station, the Royal York Hotel and Dominion Public Building. The Ontario government, heritage preservation groups and municipal politicians (including John Sewell) prevent the razing of Front Street.
 Union Station, the Dominion Building, Royal York Hotel, John Street Roundhouse, Roy Thompson Hall etc. are now protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act, they are part of the Union Station Heritage  Preservation District. Public Works Canada privatized the Dominion Public Building on 1 Front Street a few years ago.
2.)  Despite massive opposition, the Spadina Roundhouse and many other heritage buildings on the Toronto waterfront were flattened. I remember seeing dance pavilions that were constructed during the 40's. Councillor Jack Layton was a critic of the Skydome which was built on CNR property.
3.)  The Trudeau government created a Crown corporation called Harbourfront in order to create a green space on the Toronto waterfront "for future generations." However, most of the Harbourfront land was eventually sold to developers who created "Toronto's Wall of China". Views of Lake Ontario are essentially blocked by the proliferation of this urban jungle.
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Bill S-203 "An Act to Amend the National Capital Act" will ban the loss of irreplaceable buildings on Wellington Street, the landmarks that PM Trudeau tried to preserve in 1973:
Building or work of national significance means
(a) the grounds in the City of Ottawa bounded by Wellington Street, the Rideau Canal, the Ottawa River and Kent Street, known as Parliament Hill, and any buildings or works located on those grounds;
(b) the Senate of Canada Building, located at 2 Rideau Street in the City of Ottawa;
(c) the building located at 1 Wellington Street in the City of Ottawa;
(d) the Victoria Building, located at 140 Wellington Street in the City of Ottawa;
(e) the Sir John A. Macdonald Building, located at 144 Wellington Street in the City of Ottawa;
(f) the Wellington Building, located at 180 Wellington Street in the City of Ottawa;
(g) the Confederation Building, located at 229 Wellington Street in the City of Ottawa;
(h) the Justice Building, located at 229 Wellington Street in the City of Ottawa.
(i) the Supreme Court of Canada Building, located at 249 Wellington Street in the City of Ottawa;
(j) any place that has been commemorated as a historic place under paragraph 3 (a) of the Historic Sites and Monuments Act;
(k) a national historic site as defined by subsection 2 (1) of the Parks Canada Agency Act; and
(l) any prescribed building or work.
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 PWGSC holdings in the National Capital Region during the year 1985.
Royal Canadian Mint, Sussex Drive - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney saved the Royal Canadian Mint on Sussex Drive. One morning the PM was driving by the Mint when he noticed that workmen were dismantling the landmark, he immediately called the Minister responsible for the work order and halted the project. Read the article by Susan Delacourt.
Sawmill Creek Lands.

National Library and Archives, 395 Wellington Street - is part of the Parliamentary Precinct and is one of the buildings in the heart of the nation that will be protected by Bill S-203.
Aylmer Experimental Farm - decommissioned.
National Printing Bureau and Lands - the property may be consigned to a list of surplus Crown assets.

National Printing Bureau, Sacre-Coeur Blvd., Hull, Quebec.

Geodetic Astronomical Observatory.
Jacques-Cartier Park.
Land: proposed USA Embassy.
Major's Hill Park.
Connaught Building.

Embassy Block.
Kildare House.
St. John House.
Norlite Block.
Langevin Block.
C.D. Howe Building.

Sir John Carling Building, Carling Avenue.- was flattened and the land has been donated to the Ottawa Hospital Corporation. Agriculture Canada officials wanted to convert the cafeteria annex into a visitor's centre and a museum for a world famous collection of insects. But the Ottawa Hospital has no intention of preserving the annex. And more than 500 nearby trees will be clear cut.

National Arts Centre.
West Memorial Building
East Memorial Building
Quyon Ferry Wharf
Mohr's Landing Ferry Wharf

Cumberland Ferry Wharf
Masson Ferry Wharf
Touraine Staff Development Centre.
Carson Road Staff Development Centre.
Campanile Complex, Heron Road Ottawa.

Warner Building
LaSalle Academy

Former Temporary Building #8 land, near the former Sir John Carling Building. Queen Juliana Park at 870 Carling Avenue was donated to the Ottawa Hospital Corporation. Despite the fact that Ottawa City Councillor Katherine Hobbs wanted to preserve the land as a green space;
despite the fact that residents in the the Little Italy neighbourhood are opposed to the rezoning of the park and have submitted petitions to the City of Ottawa;
despite the fact that the Ottawa Civic Neighbourhood Association is objecting to the loss of park land.

Tunney's Pasture, Scott Street - 113 acres of land. The Virus Laboratory, Eldorado Nuclear and Atomic Energy of Canada buildings are gone.
801 Fallowfield Road, Nepean - 434.80 ha.

Bogue Building.
Animal Research Centre, Woodroffe Avenue, Nepean - 1,165.60 hectares. The Agriculture Canada Experimental Farm was decommissioned during the 1990's and sold to the National Capital Commission for $1 dollar.
National Wildlife Centre, 100 Gamelin Boulevard, Hull, Quebec - 6.14 hectares. Gone.

Plouffe Park.
Sir Charles Tupper Building.
Booth Street Complex, Headquarters for the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
R.A. Centre
Taxation Data Centre

Dominion Public Building, 1 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario. City of Toronto politicians including  Mike Layton refused to permit the construction of residential towers, because the building is protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act and is part of the Union Station Heritage Preservation District.