Chateau Laurier potential controversies.

 Canada Day and Tulip Festival celebrations may be banned on Major's Hill Park. "The design and contractual sale condominium agreements for the addition must fully resolve noise generated by continued events in Major's Hill Park." (From: Proposed addition to the Chateau Laurier, February 2008.)

The owners of 1 Rideau may lobby for more land behind the hotel. "In 1957, the Federal District Commission received a request from the Chateau Laurier Hotel to purchase 3 acres of Major's Hill Park immediately adjacent to the hotel for the purposes of guest parking. The Commission unanimously chose to turn down the proposal." The Federal District Commission is now the National Capital Commission. 

Trees and shrubs may being removed.

The National Capital Commission is deciding if any new access points to the park should be created. Is the government removing entrances to Major's Hill Park, to accomodate the private owners of 1 Rideau Street?(Google:  Report Rapport au Planning Committee, Lee Ann Snedden, May 23, 2019, page 60/82.)

House of Commons Debates Ottawa July 6, 1908.  Mr. Edward Arthur Lancaster, Conservative: "I think the whole thing is wrong in principle. I am more than ever of the opinion that this is a bad bargain, and one that should not have been made with this railway...It is a wrong principle to take the land of the country for this purpose...I do not wish to say anything disrespectful to the Prime Minister, but his first duty is to protect the public interest of Canada and not bother his head about what the city of Ottawa wants."

Mr. Arthur Cyril Boyce, Conservative: "I understand that in 1884 or 1887 this park was created by the government of Canada and became ordnance land...and by virtue of an Act of Parliament it was created a park for public purposes...The planting of a hotel ...on land from the public domain of Canada is not I think a proposition that will appeal to the people of Canada. The park which has been for the benefit of the people of Canada will be the back garden of a hotel."

A statue of Lieutenant-Colonel John By in Major's Hill Park. The Lieutenant-Colonel supervised the construction of the Rideau Canal.