---350 buildings were on the list, the entire Public Works and Government Services portfolio.
---Included on the 2004 list:
1.) National Library and Archives, Wellington.
2.) The entire northern half of the Sparks Street Mall.
3.) National Film Board, 3155 Cote-de-Liesse Road and 120 Houde Street, Montreal.
4.) The East Memorial Veteran's Affairs Complex,Wellington and Lyon, Ottawa.
The PWGSC Minister made a promise that the Parliament Buildings, Library of Parliament and Supreme Court would not be sold.
---A 1954 Privy Council document approved by Prime Minister of Canada Louis St-Laurent declared that the Experimental Farm was untouchable;
---Letters were sent to H.R.H. Prince Charles and to UNESCO to try to try to stop the transaction. UNESCO sent a warning letter to Parks Canada because the project will have a negative impact on the Rideau Canal.
---The concerns of neighbourhood groups were ignored--- the Little Italy and Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Associations.
---Agriculture Ministers Bud Olson, Eugene Whelan and Gerry Ritz refused to sell or give away even one acre of the site.
---The Farm is a National Historic Site of Canada and a National Interest Land Mass.
---Agriculture Canada employees wanted to transform the Cafeteria Annex into a museum and visitors centre, but the hospital is demolishing the building. AAFC employees were also forced to dig up an historic shrub collection near the DARA Tennis Club, and the hospital evicted the tennis club.
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