Canadian foreign diplomats are sharing space with U.K. diplomats in order to save money.
All Canadian Crown property will eventually be privatized.
Bill Gates and CN Rail own a Crown corporation that was created "Thanks to the deep pockets of Canadian taxpayers." (A quote in the House of Commons from Douglas Young, the Minister who privatized the railway in 1995.)
The Mulroney government wanted to denationalize the Canadian Coast Guard. (From: "On the Take" by Stevie Cameron.)
The Mulroney government disbanded the Foreign Investment Review Agency, which was created by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to limit foreign investment in the communications, natural resources and transportation sectors of the economy.
We do not own the CN Tower.
The Fraser Institute is endorsing the sale of Canadian federal property in British Columbia and the transfer of National Parks to the BC provincial government. Probably so that the premier of BC can pull another stunt like Jason Kenney is doing, close them all and sell them to resource-hungry foreign investors.
Mount Revelstoke National Park
Glacier National Park
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
Yoho National Park.
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A Canadian Crown corporation called Via Rail has to pay CN Rail and CP Rail millions of dollars a year to use railway tracks that were created by our ancestors. And CN and CP freight trains have priority use of the rails. The CPR was given $25 million dollars and 25 million acres of land after promising to provide passenger service in perpetuity.
CP Rail and CN Rail refuse to return reversionary land to the Crown, the people of Canada. Reversionary land is property that is no longer needed for railway purposes:
The 1984 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Section 6.90. |
Mr. George H. Whitaker, Progressive Conservative.
"When CN and CP abandon rail lines, as they are prone to do, the corridors, the rights of way, should revert to the Crown."
House of Commons Debates Ottawa April 29, 1974.
Mr. Hamilton (Qu'Appelle-Moose Mountain).
"Has the minister a legal opinion from the Department of Justice as to the ownership of the land underneath the rails? I put my question another way by saying that under the Charter of the CPR and under the Charter of the various railways that make up the CNR, this land belonged to the Crown and was granted to the railways for the sole purpose of transportation. When the railway gives up land and no longer uses it for which the Charter was granted, all that land beneath the rails reverts to the Crown which was the grantee."
House of Commons Debates Ottawa June 5, 1970.
Mr. Jack Sydney George (Bud) Cullen, (Liberal.)
"Would the government give consideration to the passing of legislation requiring the CNR and CPR to return property to the people of Canada each time they reduce a service?"
House of Commons Debates Ottawa November 18, 1977.
Mrs. Simma Holt (Liberal.)
"The CPR was to provide passenger service in this country in perpetuity. I happened to be on a CPR train on the very day the CPR acted to break this agreement. The service went plastic that day, the people who worked on the train said that the intention was to discourage passenger travel and that the railway would like to enter into the very lucrative field of freight traffic...The linen was taken off the tables, and the whole train turned cold....The subsidy in the agreement was $25 million and a grant of 25 million acres of land."
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