The never-ending sale of public property.

--We have already lost 2 veterans hospitals: the Rideau Veteran's Home on 363 Smyth Road, and Wallis House, 589 Rideau Street.
--the Lees Avenue armoury and the 933 Gladstone armoury.
--half of the buildings on the Sparks Street Mall, ever since the National Capital Commission bought the buildings in the year 2000; Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau expropriated the Mall in 1973 in order to preserve the architecture and expand the Parliamentary Precinct.
-- approximately 1/3rd of Tunney's Pasture - the Virus Lab; Eldorado Nuclear and Atomic Energy of Canada Building are gone.
--The Energy, Mines and Resources Complex on Booth.
--Dow's Lake parking lot on Preston and Prince of Wales.
--the 88-acre Moffat Farm that Mayor Chiarelli and 17 councillors wanted the City of Ottawa to buy, for a city park.
--the Daly Building.
--the 806-acre CFB Rockcliffe, where my Dad was stationed during the early 1950's.

The airman who is second from the left is my Dad. National Archives photo.

--CBOT-CBOFT station - 250 Lanark.
NOW THE CONFEDERATION HEIGHTS GOVERNMENT COMPLEX IS BEING DEMOLISHED. Read the documents. The National Capital Commission and Public Works Canada are spearheading the project.
Confederation Heights
---256.99 acres.

The Brookfield Road apartments will be located at Riverside Drive and Brookfield. See the Ottawa Business Journal article from June 25, 2019.

In the year 1980 the Department of Public Works was known as "the country's largest realtor." (See my March 14, 2020 blog.)
Now the Department of Public Works is "where federal buildings go to die."
PWGSC Buildings in Confederation Heights 
 RA Centre - also known as the Recreation Association Centre.
Canada Revenue Agency.
Former CBC National Headquarters.
Sir Leonard Tilley Building.
Sir Charles Tupper Building.
Insurance Building.
Taxation Data Centre.

Sir Leonard Tilley Building, 719 Heron Road, Ottawa.

Sir Charles Tupper Building, 2720 Riverside Drive, Ottawa.

Taxation Data Centre, 875 Heron Road, Ottawa.

There is a reason why several Canadian politicians are telling us "The government of Canada does not need bricks and mortar to govern." We are not that gullible, you sold our land to multinational corporations including the Marriott Hotel chain, Walmart, an American amusement park operator...You are telling us that our grandchildren do not deserve to own Crown property, but the royal families of Europe are entitled to millions of acres of land, forever.
 The masses can live in tiny high-rise condominiums, boxes in the sky; while aristocrats and criminals inhabit private islands and mansions that are protected by high walls, electronic gates and armed security guards. The so-called upper classes can fly on private jets to their bunkers and private golf courses, visit their Soho clubs, play polo and shoot defenseless animals on their massive estates.

Parks Canada wants to privatize the infrastructure in our National Parks, and the Fraser Institute wants to see the devolution of all the National Parks in British Columbia to the BC provincial government. The Alberta government is selling or partly selling 20 provincial parks. That was announced a week ago. Even the City of Ottawa is part of this agenda to steal green space from ordinary citizens. They can't wait to rezone Confederation Heights, Lebreton Flats and land behind the High School of Commerce, which I attended during the year 1980.

 I am sure that world bankers and billionaires have a keen interest in our National and Provincial Parks, historic sites which are deliberately not protected by heritage laws; Crown corporations including Via Rail and the CBC and former Olympic villages...
Canada's sovereignty, history, environment, architecture and customs mean nothing to the global financial elite and ruling families. Future generations of Canadians are just as important as "Their Royal Highnesses" and "Their Majesties." 
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A private company called CP Rail was given 44 million acres of Crown land.
The Italian writer Oriana Fallaci was incensed about the fact that foreign corporations took over landmarks in her beloved Italy, read "The Rage and the Passion."
After 9-11 Canadian politicians were debating whether the public should be banned from Parliament Hill.