Do not ban the public from the Tulip Festival.

"NCC considering fences to keep people away from blooming tulips this year." You are promoting virtual reality, I would rather see the real thing and not an image on my computer and television set..I want to smell the flowers and read the historic plaques and actually see the Rideau Canal. Smell-o-Vision was created by Mike Todd Jr. during the 1950's for the movie "Scent of Mystery." The public was disenchanted with this imitation of reality and they stayed away from the movie in droves.
  Walmart has placed brightly coloured tape on the floor to indicate how far apart customers have to be, and there are disinfectants on several tables. And only a small number of customers are permitted in the store at one time
 Government employees could place brightly coloured tape on six foot intervals on Commissioner's Park pathways; and restrict the number of people entering the Park at one time. It reeks of authoritarianism for the public to be banned from places that contribute to our physical and mental well-being and make our lives worth living.
"Big Brother will show you video of the Tulip Festival and the various national parks. But don't you dare set foot on any of those properties or you'll be fined or arrested." The people of Canada own the Greenbelt, Gatineau Park, the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, Experimental Farm, Dow's Lake, Commissioner's Park, Queen Juliana Park and the Greenbelt Research Farm. The Festival is located on prime real estate, Dow's Lake and Commissioner's Park. The Dow's Lake parking lot is worth $4 million dollars according to MP Pierre Poilievre, and was recently given to the Ottawa Hospital Corporation. Commissioner's Park will eventually be sold to real estate entities, but the masses will always have virtual tours of the Festival at their fingertips.

 Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit the Dow's Lake, Ottawa Tulip Festival.

A mid-1960's Ottawa Journal newspaper article.

     "Olympian Sue Holloway is leading a group of fitness advocates who are trying to get the NCC to open up more parkways, trails and Gatineau Park to residents so they can get some fresh air, exercise and keep their sanity during the pandemic." (From: "Fitness advocates urge NCC to open trails, parkways, Gatineau Park safely." by Kelly Egan, Ottawa Sun newspaper, April 29, 2020.")


                                                 

During the summer of 1983 I photographed Princess Diana on Parliament Hill.

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 Fences around federal property--- that should be preserved as green spaces for the people of Canada, and for visitors from around the world.

530 Tremblay Road, Ottawa.

Lebreton Flats.

933 Gladstone, Ottawa.

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The former post office on 59 Sparks Street on the Mall is a Classified Federal Heritage Building. Why on earth has it been completely blocked off by a tall fence for years? It could be transformed into a national museum.