Sunday, May 21, 2023

The government of Canada is giving away Crown property that is owned by all Canadians.

  • The Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital was donated to the University of Toronto. 
  • The Summerside Military Base in Prince Edward Island.
  • The Paul Martin Federal Building was given to the city of Windsor, and the Windsor Armoury is now a University of Windsor property.

  • Donation of the Mackenzie King Bridge and Laurier Avenue Bridge to the city of Ottawa during the mid-1990's.
  •  Were Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill and Sparks Street part of this 1995 NCC giveaway? The current Minister of Public Works is willing to pay federal tax dollars to repatriate Wellington and Sparks. In 1973 the Minister of Public Works expropriated the Sparks Street Mall and properties across from Parliament Hill in order to save the heritage buildings, prevent the construction of high-rises and enlarge the Parliamentary Precinct:
House of Commons Ottawa July 20, 1973 Hon. Jean-Eudes Dube (Minister of Public Works.) Liberal: "...I have today, on behalf of the government filed a notice of intent to expropriate all the land and buildings in the area bounded by Wellington Street, Elgin Street, Sparks Street and Bank Street. The purpose of this expropriation is, as I have indicated, to protect the environment of  Parliament from any development which could adversely affect it, and simultaneously provide an appropriate expansion of parliamentary facilities and other government requirements..." A message to the foreign architects who are redeveloping Wellington Street---leave the statue of Terry Fox where it is---directly across the street from from the Hill. I have seen your planning documents and the statue is missing. savecfbrockcliffe.
  • The Department of Public Works is presenting Riverside Drive and Heron Road within Confederation Heights to the city.
  • Majors Hill Park trees will be chopped down so they do not interfere with views of the park by inhabitants of the long-term Chateau Laurier residence. And pathways are being realigned. Are any statues and plaques being removed? Who owns the park now?
  • In 1967 the 614-hectare Blair Rifle Range in North Vancouver was transferred to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
  • The CBC Jarvis Street Headquarters no longer exist. Order in Council: Grant approval for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a.) to sell some 4,898 square metres of land at 263 and 303 Mutual Street in Toronto to Context Real Estate Inc. and b.) to convey another 4,970 metres of land at 354 and 372 Jarvis Street in Toronto to the National Ballet School for a nominal sum. In 1979 I appeared as an audience member on the television program "Take 30." Psychiatrist Peter Breggin and writer Sidney Katz were interviewed; and I remember the enormous parking lot behind the CBC building. The hallways were lined with huge photos of Barbara Frum, Fred Davis, Pierre Berton and many other CBC broadcasters.
  • The Fraser Institute is recommending that all the national parks in BC should be donated to the province:
    The federal parks are:
  • Pacific Rim
  • Gulf Islands
  • Yoho
  • Kootenay
  • Mount Revelstoke
  • Gwaii Hannas
  • Glacier
During the 1980's Prime Minister Mulroney refused to give the 1,000 acre Stanley Park to the city of Vancouver.
The National Capital Commission paid $1 for the Greenbelt Research Farm in Nepean.
The Greenbelt Research Farm is located at 1740 Woodroffe Avenue and encompassed 4,500 acres in 1958:


The Research Farm was an annex or expansion of the Experimental Farm along Carling Avenue in Ottawa.

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