The merger between the Chateau Laurier Hotel and Major's Hill Park.

 Members of Parliament never wanted Major's Hill Park to be the back yard for a hotel. House of Commons Ottawa. July 6, 1908: George Halsey Perley, Conservative. "The right hon. gentleman said that the people of Ottawa had decided that they wanted the hotel there. I do not understand that the people of Ottawa had anything to say about the situation at all...This hotel is going to get the benefit of the whole of Major's Hill Park...the park really will be the back garden for the hotel...I think it was a very wrong and improper thing for the government, without consulting parliament, to have made an agreement with the Grand Trunk Pacific Company."

House of Commons Ottawa July 6, 1908: Haughton Lennox, Conservative."The people's rights could be interfered with if there is not a fence placed between the hotel property and the park. I have enough experience with this government to believe that there may be easements granted to that company which would be inconsistent with the rights and interests of the public."

After the Daly Building was demolished in 1991/1992, nearby businesses objected to the land being preserved as an open space; they did not want so-called vagrants on the property.

Land that was earmarked for Major's Hill Park was sold to the American Embassy.

The park and the hotel are located on Parliament Hill and they are part of the Confederation Square National Historic Site of Canada. House of Commons Ottawa. December 21, 1963. House of Commons Ottawa. July 6, 1908: The Hon. Robert Laird Borden (Leader of the Official Opposition): "...This proposal to thrust a hotel onto the grounds of parliament is so incongruous and unnecessary that I cannot understand how the government ever came to accede to it. I have already said it and I repeat it, that it would be just as well for the government to have authorized the building of a hotel on one of the front lawns of this building...This is national property."

I am standing between the Chateau Laurier and the former Museum of Photography. The Parliament Buildings can be seen in the distance.

Views of the original hotel will be negatively impacted by new construction: "When determining the heirachy of view protection policies, it is important to note that there are additional secondary symbols within the Central Capital Landscape whose views are to be protected, preserved and enhanced. This includes national symbols on both sides of the Ottawa River such as the National Gallery, the Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Museum of History, the Supreme Court and Chateau Laurier." (New Tools for View Controls in Canada's Capital-2016-page 37/76.)