Senate of Canada Ottawa May 8, 2002. Proposal to Sell Moffatt Farm-Inquiry-Debate continued.: Senator Noel A. Kinsella: " Honourable senators, I would like to make a few remarks with reference to this matter now before the Senate...The matter relates, honourable senators, to the National Capital Act, which created the National Capital Commission...It seems to me, we require a provision for a recall mechanism. Section 10 (2) of the (National Capital) act, which gives the power to the National Capital Commission to sell lands held in trust, could be amended by Parliament to provide for a review mechanism by Parliament or a parliamentary committee upon the receipt for example, of 1,000 signatures of citizens from any part of Canada. (Emphasis mine.)
(Note: The Reimagine Ottawa petition "Investigate the Hospital Site Change from Tunney's Pasture to the Experimental Farm" has 4,777 signatures as of September 19, 2021 at 9:33 AM.
And a petition called "Protection of the Central Experimental Farm as a research facility and a National Historic Site of Canada" was sent to the Auditor General of Canada, Report 5, Environmental Petitions Annual Report, Petition 388.)
Senate of Canada Ottawa May 8, 2002. (continued) Senator Kinsella: "As well, the section of the act that gives the authority to the cabinet to overturn any decision by the NCC to not sell land should also apply to any decision to sell land. There is a provision in the act which provides that cabinet can overide a decision of the NCC to not sell land, and I would suggest that the same provision should apply to the sale of land. Should the NCC, indeed should any agency of the Crown, in order to make ends meet, be out negotiating away assets-in this instance assets that are held in trust for all Canadians?"
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