The Greenbelt Research Farm is an endangered landscape.

1.) A former head of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, William Teron, said "a million people" could live in the 50,000 acre Ottawa Greenbelt.

2.) The Greenbelt is not protected. "Between them, the NCC and the City of Ottawa can do whatever they want with this land. We believe this green space must be protected from developers." House of Commons Ottawa May 25, 2010: Member of Parliament Marcel Proulx (Hull-Aylmer, Liberal.)

3.) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Minister of Public Works Erik Nielsen designated the Greenbelt a "National Interest Land Mass" in 1988 to preserve the land. But the NCC has the power to remove the NILM designation. (The NCC removed the Experimental Farm from the NILM, several acres are no longer a National Historic Site of Canada, and the Arboretum and Ornamental Gardens will be encroached upon.)

4.) The City wants 13,700 acres of the Greenbelt, and that includes the Farm at 1740 Woodroffe Avenue, Commissioners Park and land adjoining the Rideau Canal and the scenic parkways. Environment Minister Jim Prentice and Environment Minister John Baird refused to transfer the properties.

5.) Suggestions were made to turn the Experimental Farm, Greenbelt, Gatineau Park, etc. into national urban parks. Jacques Greber never wanted provincial and municipal governments involved in maintaining or owning federal greenspaces because "90% of their political funding is from developers."

6.)The National Interest - Why many federal properties are off-limits to provincial and municipal governments-savecfbrockcliffe--From: The 1975-1976 National Capital Commission Annual Report:

"Up until recent years, the NCC and its predecessors were in effect the only long-range planners for the National Capital Region. But as Ottawa, Hull and their surrounding communities grew, other jurisdictions began to assume their own and proper responsibilities for planning. Naturally, administrative conflicts have resulted."

"Under the National Capital Act, the Commission is responsible for protecting and promoting the national interest in the Capital. The objectives and purposes of the Commission are set out in the Act: "To prepare plans for and assist in the development, conservation and improvement of the National Capital Region in order that the nature and character of the seat of government of Canada may be in accordance with its national significance."

"It has been argued by some that only municipal authorities have the responsibility for promulgating and implementing region-wide planning in the National Capital Region. The Commission holds that this view is unconstitutional. Provincial and municipal authorities have responsibility for local concerns in their respective jurisdictions in the region. But their responsibilities cannot be construed as representing the national interest. Neither can they be substituted for national concerns and interests. If Parliament had not wanted to see a national character for the Capital, it would not have created an agency for that purpose, and there has been such an agency since 1899."

7.) The 4,500 acre Greenbelt Research Farm was the western annex of the Central Experimental Farm:

The National Capital Commission paid $1 dollar for the Research Farm. More than 500 Agriculture Canada employees lost their jobs.

December 2017.

Federal politicians who wanted to save Ottawa's Greenbelt:

• Liberal MP David McGuinty
• Liberal MP Marcel Proulx
• Senator Mike Duffy
• Liberal MP Mauril Belanger
• Liberal MP Marlene Catterall  
• Conservative Environment Minister Jim Prentice
• Conservative Environment Minister John Baird  
• Mr. Walter David Baker: Grenville-Carleton (Deputy House Leader of the Official Opposition; Progressive Conservative Party Deputy House Leader) House of Commons Ottawa October 7, 1974.
• The Hon. Barnett Danson (Minister of State for Urban Affairs) House of Commons Ottawa October 7, 1974.
• Mrs. Beryl Gaffney (Nepean; Liberal) House of Commons Ottawa June 23, 1992.
• Mr. Jean-Robert Gauthier (Ottawa-Vanier; Liberal) November 3, 1981.
• Mr. Royal Galipeau (Ottawa-Orleans; CPC) June 7, 2012'
• Mr. Brian Jean (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities; CPC) April 1, 2008.
• Hon. Gordon O'Connor (Conservative) September 16, 2009.
• Mr. Don Boudria (Glengarry, Prescott and Russell; Liberal) August 11, 1987.