House of Commons Ottawa May 20, 1980 Mr. Paul James Cosgrove (Minister of Public Works, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the National Capital Commission)Liberal:
- The Parliament Buildings
- office buildings
- postal terminals - Amazon bought the massive Canada Post mail sorting plant in Vancouver.
- defence bases
- armouries - including the Oak Park Armoury at Plouffe Park near Gladstone, and Lees Avenue Armoury.
- national parks
- historic sites
- research laboratories
- airports
- marine properties
- warehouses
- communications stations
- experimental farms - "The government of Canada is getting out of the business of running experimental farms". A 1995 statement.
- fish hatcheries
- penitentiaries - (Corrections Canada wants to consolidate many institutions in Kingston and sell the farmland. The Prison for Women on Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard was sold to a developer who is building condos on the 8-acre adjoining land, and converting the prison to a seniors building with apartments, and commercial establishments on the first floor. Any evidence that the National Historic Site was a prison will be removed.)
- police detachments
- residential properties
- schools
- hospitals - (The Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital was donated to the University of Toronto.)
- libraries and it goes on. (The entire Canadian Library at the Canadian Embassy in London, England was donated to the University of London via a Privy Council Order-in-Council.)
I will add: The Gonzales Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, BC. The Canadian Embassy in London, England. Kanata Post Office - several years ago I drove by and the windows were covered with brown wrapping paper. The Forintek Building on 800 Montreal Road, Ottawa.
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