The mandate of the National Capital Commission is to "preserve and protect" the greenspaces in Canada's capital---from ordinary people. However, corporations and foreign governments always profit from the devolution of Crown property. The City of Ottawa Corporation wanted 11,000 acres of the Greenbelt. During a housing crisis in 1974 the NCC pressured Agriculture Canada for 600 acres of land on the Farm, from Clyde Avenue to Prince of Wales Drive.
Federal Members of Parliament who protected Crown property. John Baird, Jim Prentice, Gordon O'Connor, Mauril Belanger, Barry Turner, John Nunziata, Beryl Gaffney, Jack Layton, Walter Baker, Stanley Knowles, George McIlraith, Marlene Catterall. more...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foreign governments were prepared to build embassies on Mile Circle near Rockcliffe and Lazy Bay Commons adjacent to the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway. The British Embassy is taking over part of Lady Grey Drive and the National Research Council. And the home of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald will be hidden behind tall gates and probably flattened by the British Embassy.
The Mackenzie King Estate, Gatineau Park, May of 2022. |
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