House of Commons Ottawa May 20, 1976 MP Martin O'Connell (Liberal): "Mr. Chairman, I intend to enter only briefly into this debate on the estimates of the Department of Agriculture, and I wish to raise three or four of what appear to me to be concerns as a parliamentarian from an urban constituency.
The first is the problem of ensuring that young people will find farming an attractive occupation and will make every effort to go into agriculture at a time when other opportunities may appear to be more attractive to them. I also find that many constituents are concerned about the alleged disappearance of our prime farm land, land that would produce food. I want to know from the minister if he has an opportunity to tell us, what he has been able to do about this matter.
I want to raise the matter of purchase of farm land increasingly by foreigners, and I will raise the matter in terms of the Federal Investment Review Agency and whether or not there is a role for it to play in deciding whether such purchases are in Canada's interests...Would the minister accept as useful the proposition that certain lands of high classification be set aside in agricultural preserves or reserves to be used exclusively for agricultural purposes and denied to urban, industrial and other purposes?"
Reopen the Dominion Observatory - Retrieve the telescope from the Science and Technology Museum and prevent a medical centre from building a mega-hospital near the landmark.
RASC - The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
Astronomers at the Ottawa Observatory discovered Planet X.
Leave the street signs where they are now: Maple Drive, Birch Drive, Winding Lane, Observatory Crescent, Ash Lane, Cow Lane, Morningside Lane, Preston Street---named in honour of Isabella Preston.
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