August of 2007-The following buildings were sold for $1.64 billion dollars:
Canada Place-Edmonton, Alberta
Canada Revenue Agency Building-Montreal
RCMP Headquarters-Montreal
Skyline Complex (Towers 1-7) Baseline Road Nepean-Built on privatized Experimental Farm land.
Joseph Shepard-Toronto
Thomas D'Arcy McGee-Sparks Street Mall, Ottawa
Sinclair Centre-Vancouver
Government of Canada Building-401 Burrard, Vancouver
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NDP MP Peggy Nash (Parkdale-High Park): "Our job representing Canadians on the Government Operations and Estimates Committee is to ensure that spending from the federal government is in the best interests of Canadians. We are the democratic custodians and stewards of the tax dollars paid by Canadians. So you would think, that with a sale like this, hundreds of millions of dollars of Canadians assets, that we would be informed as to the details of such a huge sale that is going to affect the well-being of Canadians. Why do I say the well-being of Canadians? Well, not only us, but our parents and grandparents have worked very hard over the years and our tax dollars have paid for the buildings, for the assets of the people of Canada. These are our buildings."
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