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Originally Posted by GeoNerd
That's rich, that Williamoforange is accusing anyone of spouting nonsense. We've seen your posts. I provided several source that back my claim of Watson making backroom secretive deals. None of which are conspiracies. You can remove your tinfoil hat and go back to whatever it is you do.
Everyone knows the hospital board rejected Tunney's, and the NCC rejected the Dows/Farm site. You're not providing anything new or useful information to the conversation. Again, I'll inform you that it not the mandate of a hospital board to self-select which piece of land they fancy to build a provincial hospital. They possess no qualifications whatsoever in the subject. If you'd bothered to research the hospital board you'd know that.
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The Province sat back and let the Feds and Hospital choose a site. So if the Province isn't choosing the site, who else would? The hospital's preferred site was across the street, and Baird finally gave it up after years of discussions. As you may recall, there was quite a bit of controversy about that site because of agricultural research land.
The Trudeau Liberals promised during the election campaign that they would look for a new site (to contrast the anti-science Harper Conservatives). When they were elected, they put that on the NCC, which has no experience in studying sites for a hospital (QCH is on NCC land, but I'm fairly confident the NCC had no involvement beyond signing a lease).
When the NCC chose Tunney's I don't believe they had a publicly provided a ranking for the other sites, so we don't know how well Dow's Lake faired. What we do know is that the hospital board, with quite a bit of experience running several hospitals and the logistics associated, rejected the site.
Watson, the Federal Liberals and (I believe) the Provincial Liberals announced to the citizens of Ottawa that they would sit down with the Hospital Board to find a new site. Dow's Lake was chosen because it is near the existing hospital which makes moving equipment to the new site far simpler, not to mention better access to the OHI and has easy access to the west (via Carling and the Queensway) and the south (via PoW). Tunney's on the other hand has better transit access, but is poorly accessible to the rest of the city, with the Parkway often jammed with Quebec residents heading to the Champlain Bridge and Parkdale jammed by Tunney's workers heading to and from the Queensway.
Dow's Lake also makes sense because historically, it's been home to Government Buildings and surface parking lots. We're not losing a long established green space, as some claim. The one patch of grass will be replaced with a new elevated park that will include more points of interest, retail and public washrooms. It could arguably became a greater destination than the current patch of grass (to be clear, I'm talking about Princess Juliana Park, not Dow's Lake which will remain a more important destination, no doubt).
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