Do not build a hospital at Queen Juliana Park and Dows Lake.

1.)  The Experimental Farm is part of the 900 square mile memorial in perpetuity to Canadian soldiers who were killed fighting in foreign wars."The Experimental Farm forms a central park within a residential area of the City of Ottawa, and it's avenues constitute a part of the driveways of the Federal District Commission." (From:The Greber Report of 1950, page 167 out of 395 pages.)

2.)  Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau gave Queen Juliana Park to the people of Canada in 1976. (Google: "City of Ottawa Planning Committee:Stop the Rezoning of Parks to Condos.")

3.)  Prime Minister of Canada Louis St-Laurent created a Privy Council Order-in-Council on March 19, 1954, stating that the Farm would always be an open area:

A March 19, 1954 Cabinet of Canada document: "The Central Experimental Farm should remain an open space in perpetuity; if it were ever desirable to move all or part of the Farm, the land should not be used for building projects but for a park or other open area."

4.)  Before the World War 2 Temporary Buildings were removed from Queen Juliana Park and the Dows Lake property, the Minister of Public Works banned the construction of buildings on that land in the future: House of Commons Ottawa June 16 1958: The Hon. George James McIlraith (Ottawa West) Liberal: Mr. McIlraith: "Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the minister is now prepared to make the statement he said he would make concerning the policy of the government with respect to buildings on the central experimental farm. The minister will recall that I raised this question the last time the estimates were before the Committee." 

The Hon. Howard Charles Green (Vancouver Quadra) Progressive Conservative, Minister of Public Works: "The policy is that no buildings will be built on the central experimental farm except buildings for the Department of Agriculture."

Mr. McIlraith: "If I may pursue the first question a bit further, has the minister come to any conclusion as to what will be done with the land on the experimental farm when they are removed?"

Mr. Green: "I take it that the hon. member for Ottawa West refers to temporary buildings No. 5 and 8. For some years the policy has been when the temporary buildings are torn down nothing will be constructed on the site."

Temporary Building #8 on QJP and Temporary Building #5 near Dow's Lake. Photo is from geo Ottawa.

5.) Ottawa Councillor Jeff Leiper and Ottawa Councillor Katherine Hobbs wanted the Park to remain a green space: "City of Ottawa Planning Committee June 24, 2014. Proposed Motion No. PLC 77/4 submitted by Councillor K. Hobbs.

WHEREAS the Preston-Carling Secondary Plan proposes a Carling O-Train (future LRT) station.

AND WHEREAS the provision of expanded and enhanced greenspace is a key pillar in creating a sustaining, attractive and livable neighbourhood.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Planning and Growth Management Department, when reviewing development applications for the properties currently owned by Public Works and Government Services Canada municipally known as 870 Carling Avenue and locally known as 'Queen Juliana Park' that staff seek to maximize usable, programmable greenspace to create a district park and ensure safe and convenient pathways for cyclists and pedestrians to access and move through the space from the study area and the greater Civic Hospital area." (Google: Planning Committee ottwatch, June 24, 2014.)

6.)  Senate Bill S-203, an Act to Amend the National Capital Act establishes a 500 metre protective zone around Parliament Hill, National Historic Sites of Canada and other historic landscapes and buildings. The Experimental Farm was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in the year 1998:

7.)  The United Nations will remove the designation "UNESCO World Heritage Site" from the Rideau Canal if a medical centre and condominiums are built near Dows Lake.

8)  Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney created a Clause to the National Capital Act in 1988, identifying buildings,land and waterways that would be owned by the people of Canada forever. The Experimental Farm on Carling Avenue is part of the National Interest Land Mass.

The National Interest Land Mass.

9.)  The National Capital Act, which created the National Capital Commission may be further amended: The Hon. Noel Kinsella, Senator, May 8, 2002: "Honourable senators, I would like to make a few remarks with reference to this material now before the Senate. The matter relates 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 act, which gives the power to the National Capital Commission to sell lands in trust could be amended by Parliament to provide for a review mechanism by Parliament or a parliamentary committee upon receipt for example, of 1,000 signatures from any part of Canada."

 (Note: The Reimagine Ottawa petition that was initiated by former Ottawa politician Clive Doucet had 5,949 signatures as of November 9, 2021. The petition is calling for a public inquiry into why the Farm was chosen as the location for a new Civic hospital; also, the petition is trying to halt the destruction of nearly 600 mature trees.)

"As well, the section of the act that gives authority of the Cabinet to overturn any decision by the NCC to not sell land should also apply to any decision to sell land."

A photograph that I took of writer Andy Russell, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Agriculture Minister Bud Olson arriving at the Lethbridge, Alberta airport in 1972. CBC reporter Ron Collister can be seen on the right.