Mr. Jean-Robert Gauthier (Chief Opposition Whip; Whip of the Liberal Party) Liberal. The park at Rideau Hall.
"Mr. Speaker, I have approximately six petitions from constituents and visitors to the national capital who wish to present a grievance...The closure of this attractive and tranquil park affects thousands of visitors from across the country. Area residents from across the national capital region have used and enjoyed the grounds of Rideau Hall. They cannot accept a blanket closure of the 120-acre park to public access."
When His Excellency the Right Hon. Ray Hnatyshyn became Governor General of Canada in 1990 he reopened the gates.
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Preserve the Lebreton Flats as a National Urban Park--- calls from politicians John Manley, John Baird and Barry Mather:
House of Commons Debates Ottawa October 22, 1969.
MP Barry Mather: "Is the Government of Canada giving favourable consideration to the establishment of a national park at the LeBreton Flats area in Ottawa?"
Mile Circle Park near Rockcliffe.
House of Commons Debates Ottawa April 9, 1986.
Mr. John Barry Turner (Ottawa-Carleton) Progressive Conservative.
"Mr. Speaker, it is my honour to present another petition signed by 34 residents of the National Capital Region who are very much opposed to the National Capital Commission's proposal to turn the Mile Circle into an embassy row. They indicated that Mile Circle was designated in 1925 by the Ottawa Improvement Commission as a national park. (Note: More than 4,000 signatures were collected on petitions.)
House of Commons Debates Ottawa June 17, 1986.
Mr. Don Boudria (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Ontario) Liberal.
"Mr. Speaker, today at noon close to 200 people took part in a demonstration on Parliament Hill demanding that the Tory government leave the Mile Circle Park the way it is - a park for the people of Canada to enjoy. The park has been in existence for 71 years, and we do not want the Government to turn it into a building site for the US Embassy."
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Commissioner's Park at Dow's Lake. King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima never visited Commissioner's Park during their recent visit to Canada. The Dutch Royal Family always attended events at the park-Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard, Queen Beatrix and Princess Margriet. The Tulip Festival is offering virtual tours of the event, which is probably a kiss of death to any live, real, interactive event in the future. Do not ruin important tourism venues--- Dow's Lake, the Farm and Little Italy. Residents of the west end can look forward to:
---noise pollution
---light pollution
---traffic congestion
---intensification-"In the next decade the near west of Ottawa will see tens of thousands of new residents." Councillor Jeff Leiper.
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Bayshore on Carling Avenue, Ottawa during Canada Day celebrations, July 2019. |
-- The federal government is planning to privatize thousands of GOC buildings.
--- Canadians own Gatineau Park, the Greenbelt, the Rideau Canal; Lebreton Flats; all of the federal museums; Mooney's Bay; Confederation Heights and Tunney's Pasture.
Museum paintings and artifacts may be sold off because virtual tours are now acceptable. The paintings will probably be sold off by the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation or at auction houses in London, England and New York, Sotheby's and Christies.
During the 1960's my generation detested anything "phony"- imitation lawn grass; musicians who pretended to play musical instruments (my brothers threw my Monkee albums out the window and cars drove over them, because the Monkees had a backup band); a soft drink commercial proclaimed that Coca Cola was "the real thing."
Virtual reality is phony, fake, an imitation, artificial and plastic. A City of Ottawa document is claiming that "green space does not have to be green" in order to program us into accepting concrete plazas and parkettes.
A parkette is a mini park less than 1 acre in size. You can take your mini-parks Ottawa politicians.
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