This is what happened to "untouchable" National Interest Land Mass properties.

1.)  Rochester Field beside and behind Maplelawn on 529 Richmond Road, Ottawa - 2/3rds of the park are slated for redevelopment. 

2.)  Central Experimental Farm including the Queen Juliana Park - was given to a medical centre. 50-60 acres of land are now earmarked for the hospital. But they want to expand. The William Saunders Building is vacant and the Sir John Carling Building and DARA Tennis Club are gone. The Dow's Lake RCN Curling Club cannot afford a 1,000 % federal government increase in rent.

3.)  Lebreton Flats - are the focus of a massive residential and commercial project.

4.)  The Greenbelt - "The City of Ottawa has identified more than 13,700 acres of the Greenbelt worth about $1.6 billion that could be developed...without damaging its overall integrity." Environment Minister John Baird and Environment Minister Jim Prentice refused to sell any Greenbelt land.

5.)  Earnscliffe, 140 Sussex Drive- a former home of Sir John A. Macdonald and current residence of the British High Commissioner. A building designed by architect John Albert Ewart is being demolished and the High Commission is constructing a new embassy on the property. Prime Ministers John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson and Joe Clark wanted to see Earnscliffe returned to the citizens of Canada. 

6.) 88-acres of Veteran's Affairs land near Mooney's Bay/the Rideau Canal - The Moffat Farm was sold to Phoenix Developments in 2002. 

7.) The Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, former Ottawa River Parkway - Motor vehicles will eventually be prohibited from travelling on the scenic route. Do you really think that people are going to flock to subways.

8.) Victoria Island.

9.) 8 parcels of land E. of Sussex (Mile of History) from Rideau Street to Macdonald Cartier Bridge. Foreign embassies are now located on this part of Canada's Mile of History.

10.) Royal Canadian Mint, 320 Sussex Drive - The Mint became a National Interest Land Mass property in 1988, probably because it was nearly demolished in 1985: A Susan Delacourt article: "Nearly 25 years ago, former prime minister Brian Mulroney was headed down Sussex Drive. As the car passed the Royal Canadian Mint, Mulroney gazed out the window and was startled to discover construction workers busily dismantling the magnificent stone architecture of the 1908 building.

"Stop the car." Mulroney told his driver. The prime minister got out and asked the workers just what they thought they were doing...Mulroney gave them a new work order. "You can put your tools down, guys, because you're not doing it." Several minutes later Mulroney ordered an abrupt halt to the deconstruction of the mint."

11.) Booth Street Complex - "The site is bounded by Rochester Street to the West, Orangeville Street to the north, LeBreton Street south to the east and Carling Avenue to the south. The site area also includes the parcel at 299 Carling Avenue. The site is largely occupied by federal office and research facilities with some surface parking."

• Land Area: 10 ha/26 acres.
• Owner: Public Services and Procurement Canada and Natural Resources Canada.
• NILM Status: Yes.
• Existing Land Use: Agricultural Research and Federal Facilities/Employment.
• Long term planned use: Agricultural Research and Federal Facilities/Employment. (From: NCC Federal Site Review for the New Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital- November 2016. Page 27/256.)

12.)  Rideau Canal, Ottawa - The Mackenzie King Bridge and Laurier Avenue Bridge were sold to the municipality of Ottawa, 1995/96.

House of Commons Canada Evidence TRAN (40-2) No. 32  October 26, 2009. Bill C-37-An Act to Amend the National Capital Act and other Acts.

"The commission...has the power to reclassify downward any lands it deems necessary, including greenbelt lands...Our concern is that the ecologically less significant lands, although part of the whole, may lose their greenbelt designation to satisfy some development proposal."

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