Nationalism.

1.) Permit the construction of an inappropriate addition to the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. The Chateau was built on the former grounds of Parliament Hill; is a National Historic Site of Canada; part of Confederation Square and is protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act.

2.)  Privatize lighthouses.

3.)  Privatize government buildings after they are stripped of Canada's Maple Leaf Flag, Coat of Arms and the names of notable people.

4.)  Rewrite history---rename the Prince of Wales Bridge in the Capital.When I was a schoolgirl during the 1950's and 1960's my classmates and I sang "God Save the Queen" and "O Canada" before lessons proceeded. We sang "Canada" by Bobby Gimby during the 100th anniversary of Confederation in 1967.

5.)  Sell part of Parliament Hill to the City of Ottawa for their Light Rail Transit project.

6.) During the mid-1970's the government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau refused to transfer 600 acres of the Farm to the municipality. Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan said the land was "untouchable." 

7.) Do not repatriate Earnscliffe on Sussex Drive, the former home of Sir John A. Macdonald.

8.)Mr. Nelson Riis (Kamloops, British Columbia.) New Democratic Party: "...Members can probably tell that I do not support Bill C-29 at this point...This bill involves a great deal of Canada: 31 national parks, 786 historical sites, a number of historical canal systems; 661 sites that are managed by third parties that are ecologically or environmentally significant, 165 heritage railroad stations, 31 heritage river systems..."

"If someone is a wealthy person or from a high income family and someone tells them that in order to use the parks they will have to pay $10 dollars to canoe down the river, $20 dollars per night for firewood and $50 dollars to park a tent for a day or two its no big deal."

"However if we pass this legislation we are going to put access to Canada's national parks out of the reach of many, many Canadians...Increasingly, we will be turning the parks into some kind of quasi-business operation.That is not what Canada is all about."

Mr. Howard Hilstrom (Selkirk-Interlake, Manitoba.) Reform: "Mr. Speaker, I am quite interested in the financial aspects of this bill. Is there a possibility of foreign interests getting involved in our parks system?"

Mr. Nelson Riis: "Obviously the answer is yes...We lack a national park policy just as we lack a national waterways policy and a national highway policy."

9.)  Decommission the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory near Carling Avenue, Ottawa. My fellow classmates and I visited the observatory during the year 1965 and we looked through the telescope. One day the landmark will reopen, if it is not flattened by blasting when a medical centre is built nearby.

10.) Cancel the Avro Arrow project in 1959. A CBC mini-series about the enterprise can be viewed on Vimeo, "The Arrow" starring Dan Aykroyd.