The following Letter to the Editor was published in today's edition of The Globe and Mail, in response to last week's Globe Editorial entitled 'Two Monumental Errors That Need to be Fixed'". The Editorial referenced both the proposed 'Mother Canada' statue in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, and the proposed 'Memorial to the Victims of Communism' in Ottawa.
National Site Lines
Re: Monumental Errors / Globe Editorial, December 11, 2015
"Also still unresolved is the allocation of 60 acres of the Central Experimental Farm, a national historic site, to the Ottawa Hospital. Then-foreign minister John Baird promised this piece of land, which is internationally significant scientifically for its long-term studies involving soil science and the effects of climate change on agriculture. This decision about a national historic site was done with no public consultation. The international scientific community was shocked.
If the Trudeau government wants to demonstrate its commitment to evidence-based decision-making, respect for science, transparency, and a commitment to battling climate change, it can start here. At the worst, we are losing a national and international treasure. At the least, through this giveaway of real estate in central Ottawa, the Harper government obliged the taxpayers of Canada to subsidize a municipal hospital – a provincial responsibility, last anyone checked."
Leslie Maitland, Coalition to Protect the Central Experimental Farm National Historic Site of Canada