The taxpayers of Canada are not responsible for the cleanup of the Sir John Carling Building site.

 Condominium builders and the Ottawa Hospital Corporation will have to find the $11 million dollars somewhere else.

 The National Interest - 1975-1976 NCC Annual Report, page 9/52.

..."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 for and assist in the development, conservation and improvement of the National Capital Region in order that the nature and character of the 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 unconsitutional."

"The NCC is the agent of the national government of Canada. Its programs are regulated by Parliament. It is responsible twice over to elected federal representatives: the government and Parliament."

"Parliament votes annual sums of money for development and conservation of the Capital Region. Parliament does not vote this money in the interest of provincial, municipal or private ventures. It allots this money in the national interest to enhance a capital for all Canadians."

Tennis star Carling Bassett played at the DARA Tennis Club in Ottawa.

The DARA Tennis Club is being relocated to the rooftop of a parking garage on the Experimental Farm. 

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 signing the Canadian Constitution on Parliament Hill, April 17, 1982. I was on Parliament Hill that day. (National Archives photo.)

 The National Anthem of Canada.

O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong and free!

From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free. 

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Music videos that can be viewed on YouTube: "Convoy" by Paul Brandt, and "Convoy" by C.W. McCall.

Section 2 (c) of the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees "The freedom of peaceful assembly."

House of Commons Ottawa April 22 1985: The Parliament Hill Peace Camp: Member of Parliament Michael Cassidy (Ottawa Centre) New Democratic Party: "Mr. Speaker, my party and myself support the presence of the peace camp on Parliament Hill because it is a visible sign of the support of all Canadians for peace..."

House of Commons Ottawa April 22, 1985: Hon. Roch La Salle (Minister of Public Works): "I can assure the hon. member that we will always accept orderly demonstrations on Parliament Hill and that we will always respect the right way of doing things."

House of Commons Ottawa May 6, 1985: MP Michael Cassidy (Ottawa Centre) New Democratic Party: "...The people of the peace camp have been exceptionally well received...They have weathered rain, snow, bitter winter weather and harsh conditions..."

"Ottawa getting out of the business of running experimental farms."

"Ottawa closing experimental farm".CBC News, February 25, 2005. 

House of Commons Ottawa November 15, 2005: Mr. Tom Lukiwski (Regina-Lumsden-Lake Centre,CPC): "moved that, in the opinion of the House, the Access to Information Act should be amended to: (a) expand the coverage of the act to all Crown corporations, all offices of Parliament, all foundations and to all organizations that spend taxpayers' dollars or perform public functions; (b) establish a Cabinet confidence exclusion, subject to review by the Information Commissioner; (c) establish a duty on public officials to create the records necessary to document their actions and decisions; (d) provide a general public interest overide for all exemptions, in that the public interest should come before secrecy in government; and (e) make all exemptions discretionary and subject to an injury test."

House of Commons Ottawa November 15, 2005: Mr. Bill Casey (Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit, CPC) "Mr. Speaker, I compliment the member for Regina-Lumsden-Lake Centre for this move today. It is certainly timely. For instance, recently the government announced it would close four experimental farms in Canada, one is in my riding. I submitted an access to information request to find out what possibly could be the reason for these closings."

"I received the information in response to my request, which is the best tool to do my job. Page after page is blanked out. Page 8 is a letterhead with nothing on it. Pages 25, 26 and 27 are deleted. Page 62 is deleted, and so on. This is an experimental farm. This has nothing to do with national security. It has nothing to do with our competitiveness. It has nothing to do with people who would risk their jobs. Again, the government has just denied me the information to deal with an issue in my riding."

"Could the member explain why these would be exempted and could he suggest what he would do if he were in a position to enhance these regulations to make departments provide the information that we need to do our jobs and to hold them accountable? After all, access to information is totally about accountability. In a case like an experimental farm we should have access to all the information."

Queen Juliana Park.

The Sir John Carling Building and the grounds of the property were always part of the Central Experimental Farm. Therefore, Queen Juliana Park is protected by the same regulations that protect the entire 1,000 acre site:

• National Historic Site of Canada and Cultural Landscape.
• National Interest Land Mass.
• The Park is included in the 900 square mile memorial to Canadian soldiers who were killed fighting in foreign wars. The memorial was established by Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King and urban planner Jacques Greber. (Privy Council of Canada Document No. 6721 is on page 15/395 of The Greber Report of 1950.)

House of Commons Ottawa March 20, 1968: Mrs. Jean Casselman Wadds, Order of Canada; Member of Parliament (Grenville-Dundas, Ontario), future Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; Progressive Conservative: "What new buildings have been built at the Experimental Farm in the last five years, and what was the cost of each?"

Hon. J.J. Green (Minister of Agriculture):

1964, Department of Agriculture, 1964, Storage building, $14,765.

 1965, Plastic greenhouse, $10,794.

1963, Department of Public Works, East-west headerhouse, $322,213.

1963, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources-Seismograph Vault, $90, 421.

1964, Honey house addition, $165,039.

1966. Irrigation pump house for Hartwell Locks, $40, 361.

1966, Sir John Carling Building, $9, 962, 579.

Commissioners Park is very close to Queen Juliana Park, and the land is part of the National Capital Commission Greenbelt. Greenbelt properties are untouchable.

The Experimental Farm - the impending loss of 700 trees( and 700 acres of land?)

A 1974 Ottawa Journal article.TOH President envisions a Hospital Row along Carling Avenue similar to Toronto's Hospital Row. And the trees that can last for 1,000 years; the Arboretum, Fletcher Wildlife Garden; Ornamental Gardens; Dominion Observatory; research fields; barns, museums and greenhouses; Maple Drive; Birch Drive; Winding Lane; Cow Lane; the Scenic Driveway; Prince of Wales Drive; views of the Rideau Canal UNESCO World Heritage Site; Commissioners Park; Tulip Festival and many more irreplaceable landmarks are nothing more than collateral damage. 
The terms National Historic Site of Canada; UNESCO World Heritage Site; Section 1V of the Ontario Provincial Heritage Act; National Interest Land Mass; and Jacques Greber's 900 square mile memorial to Canadian solders apparently mean nothing. 

"Federal buildings and grounds which are national historic sites of Canada should receive the highest protection and their significance should be communicated to the public." (From:" Plan for Canada's Capital-1999-National Capital Commission". Lands of National Significance, page 69/127.)

In 1998, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada named the CEF a National Historic Site and a Cultural Landscape.

Near misses.

Deconstruction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa to Kingston, Ontario.

Demolition of Union Station in Ottawa; Union Station in Toronto and Summerhill Station in Northern Toronto.

The sale by the National Capital Commission of 700 acres of the Experimental Farm in Ottawa for housing and, the demolition of 50 buildings.Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan said "Over my dead body." 

Transfer of the federally-owned Stanley Park to the City of Vancouver.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney halted the in-progress deconstruction of the Royal Canadian Mint, 320 Sussex Drive, Ottawa; read the article by Susan Delacourt. The PM told the workers to go home and then phoned a government department to find out what was going on.