Crown assets.

House of Commons Ottawa February 9, 2001 Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP): "...The federal government owns 68,000 buildings."

Surplus GOC real estate in 2007:

1. Asticou Centre - 241 Boulevard de la Cite-des-Jeunes. A public service training centre built on a 64 acre parcel.

2. Constitution Building - 305 Rideau Street, Ottawa.

3. East Memorial Building - Wellington Street.

4. West Memorial Building - Wellington Street.

4. Gatineau Preservation Centre - 625 Boulevard du Carrefour.

5. Lester B. Pearson Building - 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa.

6. Library and Archives Canada - 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa.

7. Major General G.R. Pearkes Building - 101 Colonel By Drive.

8. National Printing Bureau - 45 Sacre-Coeur Blvd. Gatineau.

9. 111 Sussex Drive - Green Island.

10. RCMP Headquarters - 1200 Vanier Parkway.

11. Sir William Logan Building - 580 Booth Street.

12. The Sir Charles Tupper, Sir Leonard Tilley and Taxation Data Buildings will be demolished to facilitate the redevelopment of the 257-acre Confederation Heights.

The Taxation Data Centre encompasses 150 acres. 

13. Place du Portage - Phase 1 and 2 - 50 Victoria Street Hull.

14. Place du Portage - Phase 111 - 11 Laurier Street Hull.

15. Place du Portage - Phase 1V - Promenade du Portage Hull -( My husband was a PWGSC employee in Phase 1V for many years.)

The surplus real estate info is from a February 21, 2007 Ottawa Citizen article.

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Janet Sinclair in front of the Sinclair Centre in Vancouver. Janet Sinclair is the daughter of the Hon. James Sinclair after whom the building is named. Plans to sell the property to Larco were cancelled.(pressreader.com and Vancouver Sun photo.)

Senate Bill S-203 would protect the Parliamentary Precinct, which includes buildings on Wellington Street across from Parliament Hill; the northern half of the Sparks Street Mall; the Western Annex of the Precinct at Lebreton Flats and the Dominion Observatory. Also, the Rideau Canal and adjacent land, Greenbelt, Gatineau Park, Scenic Parkways, the Farm, etc. cannot be encroached upon and monetized.