Carling Avenue Ottawa---from "A Wall of Condos" to "Hospital Row".

 Reasons why a mega-hospital should not be built on the grounds of a National Historic Site of Canada:

1.)  The Plains of Abraham in Quebec City are federally-owned, historic and vacant, yet no one would dare construct an institution on the property.

2.)  At least 18 Agriculture Canada experimental farms have been privatized and the land was sold to real estate entities. 

3.)  The National Capital Commission wanted to preserve the Farm and that includes the Sir John Carling Building, Queen Juliana Park and all of the fields:

"NCC Interim Report on the results of public consultations on the future of the Central Experimental Farm-May 1998."

4.)  The mega-hospital is too close to the Dominion Arboretum, Ornamental Gardens, Dow's Lake and Commissioners Park. Before Covid, 500,000 people a year visited the Tulip Festival on Commissioners Park. Little Italy is a major tourist venue, and there will be a mass exodus of long-time residents because of noise pollution, light pollution, massive intensification and loss of parkland. 

5.)  A new Senate Bill, S-203, An Act to Amend the National Capital Act, prohibits the construction of buildings within 500 metres of a National Historic Site.

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                     NO ONE WANTED TO SEE A MEDICAL CENTRE ON THIS LAND.

"NCC Interim Report on the results of public consultations on the future of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. May 1998." From: The Main Public Library Downtown.