MP John Nunziata
MP Derek Lee
Individuals who created the National Interest Land Mass designation, in order to stop the National Capital Commisssion from selling prime federal properties, and to stop the City of Ottawa from using the Government of Canada as a land bank.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works Erik Nielsen.
Cabinet Ministers who refused to sell or transfer Greenbelt land to the City of Ottawa.
Environment Minister Jim Prentice.
Environment Minister John Baird.
Gatineau Park
Senator Mira Spivak created "An Act to amend the National Capital Act.(Establishment and Protection of Gatineau Park.)"
Politicians who want to see the Lebreton Flats turned into a National Park.
Environment Minister John Baird
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada John Manley.
MP Barry Mather - October 22, 1969.
The Greenbelt.
MP Marcel Proulx, Hull-Aylmer.
Hon. Gordon O'Connor, Carleton-Mississippi Mills.
MP. Beryl Gaffney, Nepean, Ontario.
MP Don Boudria, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Ontario.
Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent.
MP Marlene Catterall.
Ottawa Councillor Clive Doucet.
Ottawa Councillor Katherine Hobbs.
Federal Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz.
Federal Minister of Agriculture Eugene Whelan.
Federal Minister of Agriculture Bud Olson.
Deputy Leader of the Official Opposition Party, PC, Mr. Walter David Baker, November 4, 1974.
MP and Leader of the Green Party Elizabeth May.
Hon. Howard Charles Green, PC Party House Leader; Leader of the Government Opposition in the House of Commons; Minister of Public Works.
Hon. George McIltaith.
Parliamentary Precinct - Wellington Street buildings facing the Hill and the northern part of the Sparks Street Mall.
Senator Serge Joyal introduced "An Act to amend the National Capital Act (buildings or works of national significance.)" Bill S-203 was created to protect the heritage buildings along Wellington and the north side of the Mall. The National Capital Commission and PWGSC privatized most of the properties on the south side of the Mall - CBC Headquarters; Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building; 56 Sparks Street, home of the USC.
The NCC and Public Works are "modernizing" and no doubt privatizing the Parliamentary Precinct and new buildings will be constructed on infill sites--- for example beside the former American embassy.
Leader of the Federal New Democratic Party Jack Layton - opposed the construction of the Skydome on railway lands in Toronto.
Toronto City Councillor Mike Layton - refused to let Larco Investments build residential towers on the Dominion Building, One Front Street West, Toronto, next to Union Station.
CFB Shearwater, Nova Scotia
Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay.
Minister of National Defence Gordon O'Connor.
MP Bill Casey.
MP Peter Stoffer.
Tried to save the Upton Experimental Farm in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Premier of PEI Pat Binns
Premier of PEI Robert Ghiz
MP Shawn Murphy
Mayor of Charlottetown Clifford Lee
Champions of the Sparks Street Mall, Ottawa.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Moffatt Farm.
Senator Anne Cools
Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella
Mayor of Ottawa Bob Chiarelli and the City Councillors tried to purchase the Moffatt Farm, an 88-acre Veterans Affairs property near Mooney's Bay. They wanted the land to remain a green space, a park. But the National Capital Commission turned down their offer.
Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario.
MP Ted Hsu.
City Councillor in Kingston, Ontario Bridget Doherty
City Councillor in Kingston, Ontario Bill Glover.
CFB Downsview, Toronto.
Toronto City Councillor Maria Augimeri.
Senneville Lodge, Senneville Quebec.
Mayor of Senneville, Quebec Jane Guest
MP Bill Blaikie
MP Charlie Angus - criticized the sale of 9 federal buildings to Larco Investments, including the Sinclair Centre and Douglas Jung buildings in Vancouver; the Thomas D'Arcy McGee building on the Mall in Ottawa;
MP Mark Holland.
Individuals who tried to save heritage properties.
Paul Oberman bought the Summerhill Station in North Toronto, which the Canadian Pacific Railway wanted to demolish. Mr. Oberman laid down in front of a bulldozer that was demolishing aircraft hangars at CFB Downsview, Toronto:
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Canadian politicians who are decimating the federal government's real estate portfolio:
Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson.
City of Ottawa Councillor Jeff Leiper - approved the rezoning and sale of Rochester Field, a park that was a gift to the National Capital Commission during the 1950's.
City of Ottawa Councillor Riley Brockington - approved the construction of a new Civic Hospital on the grounds of a National Historic Site, the Experimental Farm. Told a reporter from the Ottawa Citizen newspaper that he would try to lock into the NCC/Civic agreement a promise to spare the Dominion Observatory. Hundreds of trees will be sacrificed including Isabella Preston's crabapple trees.
Prince of Wales Drive and Maple Drive will be widened;
12 acres of the Farm have been rezoned so that condos can be built along an "arterial route" Carling Avenue;
the hospital is flattening a Recognized Federal Heritage Building, the cafeteria annex designed by Hart Massey;
UNESCO sent a warning letter to Parks Canada, stating that the nearby Rideau Canal will lose its designation as a World Heritage Site.
City of Ottawa Councillor Catherine McKenney:
1.) Wants to see residential towers on the Sparks Street Mall.
2.) Is encouraging intensification at the former Energy, Mines and Resources Campus on Booth.
3.) Approved the construction of a 65-storey condominium on 900 Albert, Lebreton Flats, and a cluster of other condos nearby.
Head of the National Capital Commission Tobi Nussbaum - Tobi Nussbaum permitted the takeover of CFB Rockcliffe by an arms-length, profit-making Crown corporation. Not one PMQ, aircraft hangar or any other building was left standing and the entire military base was leveled and sold off.
Minister of Public Works and Procurement.
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