The future of Ottawa?

Ownership of land beneath the Civic Hospital is reverting to the City.

                       

Don't laugh, the federal and city politicians are taking away publicly owned property---Dominion Buildings; post offices; the Sparks Street Mall; 1200 Vanier Parkway; 1010 Somerset Street West and eventually the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway and other scenic routes.

I predict that the Parliamentary Precinct on Wellington will be gated and only accessible to politicians, a maintenance crew and dignitaries. But we can always view the House of Commons Debates virtually after they have been edited.

I am beginning to dislike the word "virtually" almost as much as I abhor the word privatization and the oxymoronic term surplus land. I would not be surprised if 100 acres of land next to Rideau Hall are sold to a developer. During the 1980's the public was banned from the grounds of Rideau Hall. Until The Right Honourable Ray Hnatyshyn re-opened the gates, shortly after he was appointed the Governor General of Canada. 

We are being socially conditioned into giving up cars and using bicycles and subways. The elite will always have their limousines, helicopters, airplanes, submarines and yachts. (Onassis bought his yacht the "Christina" from the Royal Canadian Navy.)