The City of Ottawa is responsible for the Experimental Farm Driveway.

The road is also known as the NCC Driveway. I believe that private vehicles will be banned from the parkway.

I was denied access to the 2,400 page lease agreement between the government of Canada and the Ottawa Hospital because I "do not have a valid reason" to read the document. This $1 real estate deal will have a negative impact on a National Historic Site, more than 700 trees and the Historic Hedge Collection, the Rideau Canal, Arboretum, Dominion Observatory, the Hartwell Lockstation, Maple Drive, Prince of Wales Drive, Ornamental Gardens, the Fletcher Wildlife Garden, the William Saunders building, NCC Driveway, Queen Juliana Park and Commissioners Park.

The Hartwell Locks are part of the Farm:

House of Commons Ottawa March 20, 1968:The Hon. Jean Casselman Wadds (Grenville-Dundas) Progressive Conservative: "What new buildings have been built at the Experimental Farm in the last five years, and what was the cost of each?"

The Hon. J.J. Greene (Minister of Agriculture) Liberal: "Department of Agriculture, 1964, Storage building (prefab), $14,765.

1965, Plastic greenhouse, $10,794, Lath house, $4,339; 2 Plywood silos, $4,700.

1966, 8 Screen-houses, $2,600.

1967, Greenhouse, $34,202, 2 Plastic greenhouses, $64,900."

"Department of Public Works, 1963, East west headerhouse, $322,213; Seismograph vault (Energy, Mines & Resources), $90,421; Honey house addition, $165,039.

 1966, Irrigation pump house, Hartwell locks, $40,360; Sir John Carling building, $9,962,579; Addition to apiculture building, $46,243.

 1967, Plant growth building, $135,220.

A Privy Council Order in Council from 1990. PC Number 1990-2807. Authority for the NATIONAL CAPITAL COMMISSION to enter into a number of real estate transactions and agreements with the CITY OF OTTAWA which, in summary, provide for: (a) the sale or transfer to the City of several pieces of land (including the baseball stadium lands at Coventry Road and Vanier Parkway), several streets, parks or bridges including Clemow Avenue, Linden Terrace, Central Park, Minto Bridge, Echo Drive and the Driveway, as well as the perpetual responsibility for the maintenance of several major public boulevards, local streets, structures and parks, namely Lakeside Avenue, Heron Road Bridge, Bronson/Heron interchange, Vanier Parkway, Bronson Park, Island Park Drive, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Colonel By Drive and the Experimental Farm Drive." 

The City of Ottawa believes that "Parks do not have to be grassy to be green" and that the public is entitled to parkettes that are less than 1 hectare in size. We are disrespected--- when important meetings about public land are conducted behind closed doors and when documents are witheld.

Information that is included in the 2,400 page agreement, in my opinion:

1.) A wall of condos will line Carling Avenue from Commissioners Park to the old Civic.

2.) The important reasons why the Dominion Observatory is being obliterated. The telescope was removed a few years after my high school class and I looked through it in 1965. 

The Dominion Observatory campus.

3.) The sale of air rights.

4.) The medical centre is being expanded vertically as well as horizontally. Maple Drive, Prince of Wales and the NCC Driveway are being widened to four lanes and restricted to emergency and staff vehicles. Checkpoints are being designed, so that drivers can show machines their identification papers and proof of Covid 19 and monkeypox vaccinations.

5.) Trees are being relocated to a tree museum that is accessible virtually on a computer screen. The powers that be want us to shun human contact and to teletravel, teleshop, etc. Already the NCC told us to "enjoy" the Canadian Tulip Festival virtually, on our computers.

6.) Eventually the public will be banned from the Farm for "security reasons" or because of the catchall excuse Covid 19. Just as Wellington Street, the grounds of Parliament Hill and the House of Commons are being restricted from ordinary people in a futuristic scenario.

7.) I can envision the fish pond, creeks and wooden bridges being removed from the Fletcher Wildlife Garden so that real estate corporations can build residential housing.Ottawa has been facing an emergency housing crisis for years--- in 1974 the head of the National Capital Commission Doug Fullerton wanted to remove 700 acres from the Experimental Farm for a subdivision. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Agriculture Minister Whelan told the NCC to keep their hands off the Farm.

A National Historic Site is not appropriate for a medical centre, residential development or Disneyland North--a 34-acre endeavour, at one time 108 acres-- near the Hartwell Locks and inside the Arboreum. 

The Rideau Canal Hartwell Locks are part of the Rideau Canal UNESCO World Heritage Site.

8.) Restrictive designations that prevent demolitions and redevelopment are eventually being removed---National Historic Site of Canada; UNESCO World Heritage Site; Classified Federal Heritage Building; Recognized Federal Heritage Building and Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act.

9.) The 22-acre Commissioners Park has been earmarked as a parking lot for hospital employees, visitors and patients.