Why a new Civic Hospital will not be constructed near Dow's Lake, Ottawa.

Too many people and organizations are opposed to the project.The following individuals and organizations tried to save Crown property in the national capital:
Politicians who wanted to preserve the Lebreton Flats as a green space.
The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada. (1988-09-15-tb-re-ncc.)
The Hon. Erik Nielsen, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Works.
MP Barry Mather, House of Commons October 22, 1969.
The Hon. John Baird.
The Hon. John Manley. ("John Manley, John Baird urge NCC to keep land public." CBC News, September 4, 2019.)

An individual.

Lindsay Lambert "...LeBreton Flats should remain public property and be devoted entirely to public and social use..." (The Province, August 5, 2020.)

The Central Experimental Farm.
Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson - "I think the Central Experimental Farm is a real gem in the city and I don't think the public wants to take open and green space and have it developed." (friendsofthefarm newsletter, summer of 2013, page 10/12.)

The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada.

The Hon.Erik Nielsen, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Works.

The Right Honourable Louis St-Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada - a March 19, 1954 Parliament of Canada document stated that the CEF will "remain an open area in perpetuity".

A March 19, 1954 Cabinet document.

Deputy Leader of the Official Opposition Mr. Walter David Baker, House of Commons Nov. 4,1974.
 Elizabeth May, MP and Leader of the Green Party wrote a letter to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, Google "Celebrating Earth Day Heritage Ottawa."
Hon. Anne Cools, Senate of Canada  April 23, 2002. "The public fears that many other parklands, like the Experimental Farm and the Arboretum are on the National Capital Commission's list for sale."
MP Marlene Catterall, Ottawa West-Nepean.
Ms. Maude Barlow, Honourary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians."This is a place where families go, it's a place where people have gone for years." (Ms. Barlow) said the project would create a theme park atmosphere and lead to the privatization of the Experimental Farm. (Note: PWGSC and Agriculture Canada were prepared to annex 108 acres of the land for an enterprise that I call Disneyland North.) Ottawa Citizen article, August 3, 2001.
Hon. Howard Charles Green (Vancouver.) Minister of Public Works, PC House Leader, Secretary of State for External Affairs. House of Commons, August 1, 1958.

Hon. George James McIlraith, House of Commons, August 1, 1958.
City of Ottawa Councillor Katherine Hobbs.
City of Ottawa Councillor Clive Doucet.
MP Pierre De Bane, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Urban Affairs - House of Commons, November 4, 1974.
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.
Agriculture Minister Bud Olson.
Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan.

Agriculture Minister James Garfield Gardiner, House of Commons, Liberal, June 18, 1954.

Agriculture Minister Douglas Scott Harkness, House of Commons, August 1, 1958.

Agriculture Minister John Wise, House of Commons, May 13, 1988. "Agriculture Canada, my Department, has no plans or thoughts whatsoever of disposing of that property at any time."

MP David Bruce Daubney (Ottawa West) House of Commons, May 13, 1988.

MP Hazen Robert Argue, (CCF) House of Commons, August 1, 1958.

The Hon. Eldon Eady, member of the National Capital Commission and Director of Gatineau Park. Mr. Eady saved Queen Juliana Park located on 870 Carling Avenue. 1976.

The Rideau Canal.

Save Our Rideau-A campaign to save the heritage of the Rideau Canal..

The waterway will no longer be a UNESCO World Heritage Site if a medical centre is built on the Experimental Farm. A letter from the United Nations agency UNESCO to Parks Canada.

 "Canada's Farm" and the Rideau Canal Hartwell Locks, Ottawa. Photo is from smallpond.ca.

Organizations that want to save the Farm.
Protect the Farm - Home|Facebook.
Save the Central Experimental Farm - Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.
Saving the Central Experimental Farm - Heritage Ottawa.
Save the Farm - Protest to save our trees and greenspace.
Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Association.

The National Trust for Canada.
Petition: Protection of the Central Experimental Farm as a research facility and a national historic site of Canada.

Petition: Save Ottawa's Precious Urban Greenspace - Change.org.
Petition sent to the Auditor General of Canada, by the Coalition to Protect the Central Experimental Farm National Historic Site of Canada.  Report #5. Date received 28 January 2016.

Friends of the Central Experimental Farm.

The Dominion Observatory Campus.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is concerned about the future of the campus. Google "RASC 2019 GA - The National Heritage of the Dominion Observatory" YouTube. "Preservation of the Dominion Observatory-A Proposal." RASC.

Organizations that are opposed to what is happening in Westboro.
Save Rochester Field.
Stop Over-Intensification in Westboro.

The Sparks Street Mall.
The Right Honourable Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada.
 Hon. Jean-Eudes Dube, Minister of Public Works.
Prime Minister Trudeau expropriated the properties on Wellington Street across from Parliament Hill, and the entire Mall in 1973 in order to:
1.)  Expand the Parliamentary Precinct.
2.) Protect the heritage buildings.
3.) Prevent the construction of high rise apartments near Parliament Hill.

House of Commons   Ottawa   July 20, 1973.
Mr. Jean-Eudes Dube (Minister of Public Works) Liberal.
     "Mr. Speaker, for a number of years it has been recognized that Parliament faces a severe space problem creating a limitation of it's effective operation...Moreover, concern has been expressed about the danger of visual encroachment on the beauty of the present parliamentary precinct...I wish therefore to announce Mr. Speaker, that I have today, on behalf of the government, filed a notice of intent to expropriate the land and buildings in the area bounded by Wellington Street, Elgin Street, Sparks Street and Bank Street. The purpose of this expropriation is as I have indicated to protect the environment of Parliament from any development which could adversely affect it...The property of the United States Embassy has been excluded from this expropriation but discussions are well advanced for it's acquisition."
(Note:Local politicians believe that a cluster of residential towers would "animate" the Mall. Only the facade or outer shell of the heritage buildings would be saved.)
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Save Little Italy.
Save the Mooney's Bay Park.

The Greenbelt.
"City of Ottawa White Paper on Development in the Greenbelt" May 27,2008:
     "It is estimated that of the 20,000 hectares in the Greenbelt, at least one quarter (approximately 5,560 hectares) might be eligible for development consideration if the Greenbelt designation was removed and the development policies of the city's Official Plan were applied to these lands."
(Note: The Greenbelt is a National Interest Land Mass, it is untouchable, Google: 1988-09-15-tb-re-ncc).
Federal politicians who preserved the Greenbelt:
MP Marcel Proulx (Hull-Aylmer) - House of Commons  November 26, 2007.
Minister of the Environment John Baird.
Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice.
The Hon. Gordon O'Connor (Mississippi Mills, Ontario) House of Commons September 16, 2009.
MP Beryl Gaffney (Nepean, Ontario)  House of Commons June 22, 1992.
MP Don Boudria (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell) House of Commons August 11, 1987.

Moffat Farm.
Senator Anne Cools.
Mayor of Ottawa Bob Chiarelli and the entire city council.