Government-owned parkland.

House of Commons Ottawa March 24, 1986  MP Jean-Robert Gauthier (Chief Opposition Whip, Whip of the Liberal Party) Ottawa-Vanier. "...My question is directed to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will he tell the House if it is federal policy to sell federally owned parkland? The NCC Chairman Jean Pigott recently said she wants to sell part of a riverfront park known as Mile Circle to the United States of America for an embassy compound.""...Mr. Speaker, could the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House whether he intends to act responsibly and give clear and precise instructions to all those who are responsible for our national parks, indicating clearly that none of our national parks are for sale." (Note: In the year 1925 the Ottawa Improvement Commission designated Mile Circle near Rockcliffe a federal park.---MP Barry Turner (Ottawa-Carleton) House of Commons, April 9, 1986.)

Parks Canada wants to sell $8 billion dollars worth of infrastructure in the federal parks, including highways, bridges, culverts, tunnels and dams. The Rideau Canal has 52 dams and 45 locks. And the 142-mile Icefields Parkway runs through the Banff and Jasper National Parks.Read: "Parks Canada to look at divesting highways, bridges, dams..." by Dean Beeby,CBC News.

The Rideau Canal was built to protect Canada from an American invasion. After the War of 1812, Colonel John By and thousands of workers built the waterway. The British government refused to transfer the Rideau Canal to the government of Canada before a treaty was signed:

House of Commons Ottawa June 1,1950.  Member of Parliament George Taylor Fulford (Leeds,Ontario) Liberal. Mr. Fulford: "...There was a rather quaint treaty signed between Great Britain and Canada when the canal was handed over to Canada. One of the clauses said that Canada would maintain the canal system as long as the grass was green and the skies were blue."