I will not be a tenant in my own country.

Throughout my lifetime I have worked at various minimum wage jobs, and never had enough money to buy a house.
But I, and 33 million other Canadians, did own $60 to $80 billion dollars worth of federal property. I could walk into a Manpower office and say to myself "I own this building." I could walk into a post office with marble floors and 12-foot high ceilings and say to myself "This is my property."
The people of this nation owned the Parliament Buildings, the Connaught Building, museums, art galleries, National Parks, the Rideau Canal, harbours, bridges, Library and Archives Canada, the Federal Training Centre; lighthouses. Our Maple Leaf Flag and Coat of Arms are proudly displayed on Government of Canada buildings.

 I now hear the words and phrases: land is needed for housing;
surplus real property
the government does not need bricks and mortar to govern.
the private sector can manage Crown properties more effectively.

The City of Ottawa is part of a project entitled the Surplus Federal Real Property for Homelessness initiative: Affordable housing is earmarked for:
933 Gladstone.
part of Lebreton Flats.
rowhouses opposite the Adult High School on 300 Rochester, built by Canada Mortgage and Housing during the 1960's.
1010 Somerset, a PWGSC building.
part of CFB Rockcliffe.

The City of Ottawa wants 13,700 acres of the Greenbelt.
A former U.K. prime minister privatized geared-to-income housing. The council flats are featured on a BBC television program called "Location, Location, Location" with Kirstie Allsop and Phil Spencer.
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The Civic Hospital relocation will negatively affect tourism, take away Queen Juliana Park, wipe the Dominion Observatory off the map, increase the number of vehicles on the road and create noise and environmental pollution. The Civic Hospital Neighbourhood, Little Italy and the Glebe Annex  have to deal intensification on Gladstone, high-rises on 101 Champagne; a mega-hospital on the Farm and a "wall of condos" lining Carling Avenue. The damage inflicted on this area will last for generations. As former Councillor Diane Holmes told Ottawa Citizen reporter Dave Reevely, the current municipal government does not represent the community.

 This image is from "Reimagine Ottawa" a group headed by politician and writer Clive Doucet.