Saturday, December 17, 2022

Opposition to redevelopment on the Central Experimental Farm--more names added.

A February 5, 1908 Ottawa Journal headline.
  • Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier
  • Agriculture Minister Sydney Arthur Fisher
  • Former Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson--"Why I love Ottawa"---Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson's favourite places are the Farm, 277 Sussex Street, Rideau Hall, the National Arts Centre and the Precinct of the War Memorial. (Ottawa Magazine, June 20, 2017.)
  • Senator Mike Duffy-Senate of Canada, December 12, 2019
  • Angela Keller-Herzog, a member of The People's Official Plan
  • MP Richard Cannings presented a petition in the House of Commons, February 11,2022
  • MP Monique Pauze, House of Commons December 2,2022
  • Hon Lloyd Francis, SPEECH FROM THE THRONE, CONTINUATION OF DEBATE-"...Despite the fact that there is a serious housing shortage I do not think that my constituents would choose to sacrifice an open space which is such a precious thing for the community..." October 10, 1974.
  • Mr. Winfred McLure, House of Commons June 1, 1951
  • Mr. Walter Baker, House of Commons October 7, 1974
  • Hon. Barnett J. Danson, House of Commons October 7, 1974
  • Hon. George McIlraith, House of Commons June 16, 1958
  • Hon. Charles Howard Green, House of Commons June 16, 1958
  • Mr. Hazen Robert Argue, House of Commons August 1, 1958
  • Mr. David Bruce Daubney, House of Commons May 13, 1988
  • Prime Minister Mackenzie King
  • Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent - in a November 4, 1954 Privy Council Order in Council, Prime Minister St-Laurent said that the Experimental Farm will be "an open space" in perpetuity
  • Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
  • Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
  • Hon. Erik Nielsen, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Works
  • Agriculture Minister James Garfield Gardiner, House of Commons July 13, 1956
  • Agriculture Minister Douglas Harkness
  • Agriculture Minister Bud Olson
  • Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan
  • Agriculture Minister John Wise
  • Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz
  • Mr. Lyle Vanclief, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food, House of Commons September 23, 1994.
  • Mr. Murray Cardiff, Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Privy Council; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture-House of Commons January 23, 1990
  • Senator Anne Cools, Senate of Canada April 23, 2002 - "The public fears that many other parklands, like the Experimental Farm and the Arboretum are on the National Capital Commission's list for sale." A comment after an 81-acre Veterans Affairs property near Mooney's Bay was sold for a housing development on 1709 Prince of Wales Drive.The Moffat Farm was supposed to be recreational land in perpetuity.
  • MP Marlene Catterall, House of Commons February 9, 1998 
  • Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson
  • Ms. Maude Barlow, Honourary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
  •  Singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn
  • MP Elizabeth May
  • MP Pierre De Bane, House of Commons November 4, 1974
  • MPP Joel Harden
  • Former and current Ottawa Councillors Clive Doucet, Katherine Hobbs, Jeff Leiper, Catherine McKenney, Rawlson King and Shawn Menard  more...

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