savecfbrockcliffe's blog: Parliament Hill changes.

Excavation on one of the most sacred properties in Canada.

NCC board: "Tram preference on Wellington, new pathways at LeBreton Flats, Master Plan for Gatineau Park" Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen, January 21, 2021.

The tram project will require the expropriation of land from Parliament Hill and the Supreme Court of Canada. This is what a local politician said about the endeavour:

"Kitchissippi Counc. Jeff Leiper worried some of the issues with the Wellington route would be 'deal breakers' with the 'stickiest' point being talks with the federal government to use the fringes of the parliamentary precinct. It would also affect the current eight entrances to the precinct." (From: "Sparks Street tunnel preferred route for Gatineau tram." CBC News, September 2, 2020.)

The Paliamentary Precinct encompasses the Parliament Buildings; Parliament Hill; the Supreme Court of Canada; Library and Archives Canada; Wellington Street and properties across from the Hill; the Senate of Canada (the former Union Station, where I was employed during the early 1980's) and the northern half of the Sparks Street Mall. The precinct is untouchable. You do not build pyramids, underground parking lots and condos on sacred ground.

Parliament Hill is unceded Algonquin First Nation territory.

Wellington Street is part of the Confederation Square National Historic Site of Canada:

Senate Bill S-203:

The Constitution Act, 1982

"In 1976 the Parliament Buildings and the grounds of Parliament Hill were designated as National Historic Sites of Canada given their importance as the physical embodiment of the Canadian government and as a focal point for national celebrations." The National Historic Sites are bounded by Wellington Street, the Rideau Canal, the Ottawa River and Kent Street.

Yoko Ono and John Lennon visit Parliament Hill. CBC Archives, audio.

House of Commons Debates Ottawa December 21, 1963.

Legal Title-"With the exception of the years 1802-1823, Parliament Hill has been owned by the Crown-successively the Crown Imperial, the Crown Provincial and the Crown Federal. Since 1823, the Crown has always held these lands for public purposes-either for defence or generally."

"In 1802, the British Crown granted the area to Jacob Carman who deeded it in 1812 to Thomas Fraser by whose son Hugh it was inherited. In 1823 the Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor, purchased the Hill from Hugh Fraser on behalf of the British Crown and, by letter, entrusted its control and management to Colonel John By with instructions that the Hill, together with Major Hill and Nepean Point, be reserved for military purposes."

"About 1857 the British Crown transferred the Ordnance (or military) lands- these including the Hill, together with the Rideau Canal lands to the Government of Upper Canada. With Confederation the Hill and the buildings then thereon were included in those public lands and works transferred from Upper Canada to Canada by section 108 of the B.N.A. Act and clause 9 of the 3rd Schedule thereto."

"Thereafter the Hill has continued in the ownership of Canada. The statutory phrase is that the Parliament Hill lands are absolutely vested in Her Majesty in right of Canada for the purposes of Canada. See: Public Land Grants Act, R.S. 1952 Can.,ch. 224 and Ordnance and Admiralty Lands Act, R.S. 1927 Can.,ch. 115."