"Canadian parklands are not for sale."

 House of Commons Ottawa February 7, 1986 Mr. Don Boudria (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell) Liberal: "Mr. Speaker, the Government of Canada has embarked on a policy of selling the Crown jewels. First it was the threat of logging national parks, then selling our national aircraft manufacturer, then the possibility of privatizing Air Canada, and finally the potential sale of Mile Circle Park right here in the city of Ottawa to build a U.S. embassy."

"As the opposition critic for the Department of Public Works, I call upon the Government to reject any American offers to buy or lease Mile Circle Park. I call on  the Government to send a clear signal that Canadian parklands, our national treasures, are not for sale. I call upon the Government to state clearly that it will not act improperly by selling Mile Circle Park or locating an embassy on it."

House of Commons Ottawa February 25, 1986 Mr. Barry Turner (Ottawa-Carleton): "Mr. Speaker, I have the honour and privilege to present another petition signed by over 900 people who live in the National Capital Region, and in particular residents who live near Mile Circle Park...who are strongly opposed to the potential destruction of the parkland within the Mile Circle for commercial use by foreign embassies."

House of Commons Ottawa August 11, 1987 Mr. Don Boudria (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell) Liberal: "It is the responsibility of the NCC to protect and maintain the Greenbelt."

"Under no conditions whatever should the ground now occupied by the Experimental Farm be used for other than park purposes, should its present use as a farm be abandoned." (From: Report of the Ottawa Improvement Commission, 1915, page 126/238. The OIC became the Federal District Commission in 1927 and the National Capital Commission in 1959.)

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June 19, 2021, the Rockcliffe Park News: "Mile Circle and Aviation Museum Area Lands to be Preserved from Development." "The following response was received to a request seeking confirmation that Mile Circle and lands to the east of Birch Street and lands around the Aviation Museum and the Rockcliffe Airport, whose designations have been changed to allow for development, will be preserved as green space."

 February 11, 2023, the Manor Park Chronicle: "NCC plan for George-Etienne park includes Mile Circle "A 'medium scale facility' could be built on Mile Circle...a 13-kilometer stretch of the park has been identified as falling within the scope of the plan."