Indigenous coalition calls on Ottawa to reconsider site for new hospital – Nunatsiaq News
Apr 5, 2022
Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition is requesting the space be used instead for reconciliation
The Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition wants the city to reconsider its approval of plans for a property where 750 trees are to be cut down to make room for the new Ottawa Civic Hospital campus.
Instead, the coalition wants the land used as reconciliation space for urban Indigenous people and all Canadians who live in Ottawa.
In February 2018, the federal government announced plans to lease about 50 acres to the Ottawa Hospital for its new campus. It’s currently a public green space, home to historic trees and an ornamental hedge collection.
In February of this year, Ottawa City Council’s planning committee approved a development plan for the site.
So far 159 trees have been taken down, with the rest to be removed later.
