Massive rent increases on federal property.

Cottages along the Rideau Canal - House of Commons Ottawa February 13, 1975. Mr. Tom Cossitt (Leeds) Conservative: "Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask, under the provisions of Standing Order 43, permission to move a motion of urgent and pressing necessity particularly to my own constituency and, to the entire area along the Rideau Canal stretching from Ottawa to Kingston."

"Arising out of the decision of the government to increase land rentals to all those owning cottages on government land adjacent to the canal by as much as 800 percent, I move, seconded by the hon. member for Grenville-Carleton (Mr. Baker): That in view of the absolutely unwarranted increases of up to 800 percent in land rentals being applied by the government  to cottage owners along the Rideau Canal, the House considers this move illogical, nonsensical, unjust and inflationary and instructs the responsible minister, namely the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, to forthwith instruct his officials to cease such increases and to re-examine the situation for purposes of establishing only increases that are fair and equitable to all concerned."

The RCN Curling Club next to Dow's Lake - "Curling club says DND rent increase will force it to close." CBC News, March 3, 2020. 

Celebrations of the Tulip Festival adjacent to Dows Lake - "Tulip Festival to uproot relationship with NCC." "The long-standing relationship between the National Capital Commission and the Canadian Tulip Festival is changing. Organizers say the festival's 60th edition will be staged at commemorative sites around Ottawa and not on NCC land.The high cost of land events on NCC property is being identified as the reason for the decision."

  ( Note: Tulip Festival events are held on Majors Hill Park, but not for long. The federal park will basically be an annex to the Chateau Laurier Hotel, and one Ottawa councillor wondered about "the future" of Majors Hill Park once it is amalgamated with the hotel.

Also, a relatively small park on 265 Fairmont Avenue near the Civic is being renamed "Princess Margriet Park". Does the City want to transfer the tulips, the commemorative plaques and statues from the 22-acre Commissioners Park to Fairmont Avenue.?)

Kingston Penitentiary - The rent increased from $1 dollar a year to $1 million dollars a year.