"These are our buildings."

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

Recently sold for housing: The Kingston Pen and 3 more Corrections Canada properties on King Street. 

• Kingston Penitentiary is a National Historic Site of Canada and a Classified Federal Heritage Building. The City of Kingston wants the perimeter walls removed to accommodate buses and cars, and guard towers cannot interfere with views of Lake Ontario. The southern half of the Pen will be demolished for residential housing.
• The Isabel MacNeill Halfway House for Women, 525 King Street West. Was protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act.
• St. Helen's Complex, 440 King Street West. It was protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act.
• Stone Gables, 462 King Street West, created by inmates of KP with limestone. Protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act. 

Sold in the year 2007:

• Vancouver - 401 Burrard Street and the Sinclair Centre
• Edmonton - Canada Place
• Toronto - Joseph Shepard
• Montreal - 4225 Dorchester and 305 Rene-Levesque West

A video called "PSAC National President John Gordon Delivers Speech" is on YouTube. Comments by NDP MP Peggy Nash: "Our job representing Canadians on the Government Operations and Estimates Committee is to ensure that spending from the federal government is in the best interest of Canadians. We are the democratic stewards of the tax dollars paid by Canadians."

 "So you would think, that with a sale like this, hundreds of millions of dollars of Crown 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...Our parents and grandparents have worked very hard over the years and our tax dollars have paid for these buildings, for the assets of the people of Canada. These are our buildings."

When Government of Canada buildings are privatized, our Maple Leaf Flag, Coat of Arms and the names of prominent people are stripped from the edifice. House of Commons Ottawa February 7, 1994 Mr. Alex Shepherd (Durham) Liberal: "Mr. Speaker, those of us who are proud Canadians are offended that CP Rail has decided to change its logo into what in effect looks like the Canadian flag becoming or being subsumed into the American flag. Regardless of CP's rights as a private company to choose any logo it wants, Canadians should have a voice in this matter."