Rideau Canal bridges and dams are prime candidates for sale.

Parks Canada believes that the Rideau, Chambly, Lachine and Trent Severn bridges---worth $225 million dollars---are non-core assets. Another 103 dams on the same waterways, as well as the Saint-Ours Canal, are estimated to be worth about $1 billion dollars.

Non-core bridges and dams do not have any heritage or cultural value according to Parks Canada.

However, the United Nations believes that the Rideau Canal has historic and cultural value. And the waterway is legally protected by UNESCO:

"A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated for having cultural, historical, scientific or other forms of significance."

Did Parks Canada sell $8 billion dollars worth of infrastructure in 2018? ("Parks Canada to look at divesting highways, bridges and dams. Cash-strapped agency examines whether to sell or divest non-heritage assets worth $8.3 B" by Dean Beeby, CBC August 26, 2017.)

The Bank Street Bridge over the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. The photograph is included in the article "Internal Parks Canada report looks for ways to make money by selling, transferring assets." by Dean Beeby, CBC News 2018.

Canadians have already lost thousands of publicly-owned bridges:

The Quebec Bridge connecting Levis, Quebec to Quebec City.

House of Commons March 29, 1996 Mr. Antoine Dube, Levis, Quebec, BQ: "CN owned 6,000 bridges across Canada."

The National Capital Commission sold the Mackenzie King Bridge and Laurier Avenue Bridge that cross the Rideau Canal, to the City of Ottawa for $1 dollar.

The Paul Martin Federal Building on 185 Ouellette Avenue in Windsor, Ontario was sold to the city of Windsor for one dollar. Fifty acres of the Carling Avenue Experimental Farm including the $4 million dollar Dows Lake parking lot were sold for $1 dollar.

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The market value of the Dow's Lake parking lot is $4,021,000. Seven hundred and fifty trees will be removed from the Experimental Farm including the Historic Hedge Collection near the DARA Tennis Club.

The Historic Hedge Collection.

 Land mass on the Sir John Carling Site allocated to the hospital in the year 2016: North Boundary - Carling Avenue between Bayswater and Preston Street.

East Boundary - From Preston Street to Prince of Wales Drive.

South Boundary - From Prince of Wales Drive (600 metres) to 90 degrees west to Birch Drive.

West Boundary - From Birch Drive/Maple Drive up to Winding Lane and back to Carling Avenue at Bayswater (quarter of a circle around the Dominion Observatory.) (Information that was given to Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre from Public Services and Procurement Canada.)