"Reimagining the Rideau Canal Parkways" January 10, 2022.

1.) The government of Canada parkways in Ottawa have been targeted for more than 50 years:

House of Commons Ottawa May 15, 1970: Mr. D. Gordon Blair (Grenville-Carleton) Liberal: "I would like to direct a question to the Acting Prime Minister. Is the government aware of a statement or statements to the press by the Chairman of the National Capital Commission to the effect that he might close the national capital parkways for a week for the strange purpose of proving their importance in carrying traffic?'

"The second part of my question is whether the Acting Prime Minister can assure the House that the government will not permit the people of this area to be inconvenienced by the disruption that this extraordinary and senseless experiment will cause."

The Hon. George James McIlraith (Solicitor General of Canada)"The statement has caused concern. I am very doubtful that the Chairman of the commission has any such authority under the National Capital Act passed by this Parliament."

2.) The Ottawa and Hull government driveways are protected by the designation National Interest Land Mass. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Minister of Public Works Erik Nielsen created the NILM to prevent federal properties from being used as a land bank by the City of Ottawa.

National Interest Land Mass properties: The Greenbelt (the City wants 13,000 acres of the Greenbelt); the Greenbelt Research Farm on Woodroffe; Lebreton Flats; the Central Experimental Farm on Carling Avenue;

3.) "Federal, scenic parkways and parks in the National Capital Region are dedicated to the memory of Canadian soldiers who died fighting in foreign wars." From: The Greber Report of 1950, page 228 of 395 pages.

4,) "The National Capital Commission is developing a new policy for its scenic parkways that will give priority to accomodating pedestrians and cyclists rather than automobiles. The proposal is aiming for a shift in paradigm, putting the park back into the parkway...The parkways should not be viewed as commuter routes.When completed next year the Capital Urban Lands Master Plan will be the first such plan covering federally owned parkways, riverbanks, employment areas such as Tunney's Pasture and Confederation Heights and the Central Experimental Farm." From: "Proposed NCC policy aims to put the park back into parkway" by Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2014.

5.) Report of the Federal District Commission, 1949, page 14/75. "The Federal District Commission is justly famous for the utilization of the scenic beauty of the federal capital area. Wherever possible, parks and driveways are and will be located along the banks of the Rideau and Ottawa rivers, the Rideau Canal and Dow's Lake.