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March 22, 2016

(Sent via email)

Ms. Leslie Maitland The Coalition to Protect the Central Experimental Farm

Dear Ms. Maitland,

Thank you for your message regarding the redevelopment of The Ottawa Hospital.

This is an important issue for the Ottawa community, and I want to assure you that the Board of Directors of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) has been diligent in examining this project as it relates to our mandate.

The role of the Champlain LHIN in any capital process involving hospitals is to ensure the proposed programs and services fit with the needs of the community. On November 25, 2016, the Champlain LHIN Board endorsed the program and service elements outlined in the Ottawa Hospital’s pre-capital plan to redevelop its Civic campus. The pre-capital stage represents an early phase stage of the process, and there will be more opportunities for the LHIN Board to examine any proposed programs and services in greater detail. The LHIN Board concluded that a new hospital site on undeveloped land in central Ottawa would meet the needs of the community and therefore endorsed the hospital’s pre-capital plan. As stated by Champlain LHIN CEO Chantale LeClerc in the Ottawa Citizen on February 10, 20 16, “. . . we would be open to any feasible site in central Ottawa.”

We are pleased The Ottawa Hospital has initiated community engagement activities on its redevelopment plan, including creating a new public consultation committee and hosting a recent public forum attended by hundreds of local residents. We understand and expect that such activities will continue.

It is important to note that while LHIN endorsement of capital projects is essential, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is responsible for final approval.

We appreciate your participation in this important initiative.

Kind regards,

Jean-Pierre Boisclair, FCPA, FCA Board Chair, Champlain LHIN cc Dr. Jack Kitts, CEO, Ottawa Hospital Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister for Health and Long Term Care Hon. Yasir Naqvi, MPP Ottawa Centre Jeff Leiper, Councillor, Kitchissippi Ward Riley Brocklington, Councillor, River Ward

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Jan Harder, Chair, Planning Committee Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Hon. Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage (responsible for the National Capital Commission) Hon. Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Natalie Bull, National Trust for Canada David Jeanes, President, Heritage Ottawa Erwin A.J. Dreessen, PhD Co-chair, Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital Professor Peter Smith, FSB, FRSE, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen G. Clarke Topp, PAg, PhD, Soil Physicist, Environmental Scientist Con Campbell, CM, SOM, PhD, FAIC, FCSS, FASA, FSSSA, Soil and Environmental Service Paul Hallett, Professor of Soil Physics, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen [email protected] David W. Hopkins, BSc, PhD Dsc CBio FSB Professor of Soil Science, Dean of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The Royal Agricultural University Cirencester, Gloucestershire Nikita Lopoukhine, MSc, Canadian Geographic Society Fellow, Emeritus Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Ex Chair of the Society for Ecological Restoration, Board member of Wildlands Network, National Trustee of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Sidney Rosa Vieira, CPD Solos e Recusos Ambientais, Instituto Agronomico, Campinas SP Brazil Lyette Fortin, Consultant in Architectural Conservation, Carleton University Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Hazel Christy, MBA, MCIP, President The Canadian Institute of Planners [email protected] Royal Architectural Institute of Canada [email protected] Robert Allsopp, Fellow, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Robert Norman, President, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Freeman Cook, Environmental Scientist, Brisbane, Australia Peter Anderson, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario [email protected] Mike Beare, Msc, PhD, FNZSSS, Science Group Leader, New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Christchurch, New Zealand [email protected]) Jennifer Dungait, BSC, MSC, PhD FISoilSCI, Principal Research Scientist and Honorary Associate Professor, Rothamsted Research, North Wyke, UK [email protected] Chris van Kessel, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California [email protected] Ken Van Rees, RPF, Head, Department of Soil Science, Director, Centre for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, [email protected] J. David Miller, PhD JAIHA, Carleton University. [email protected] Myrna J. Simpson, PhD, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario [email protected] Julie Harris, Mus.St. Contentworks, Heritage Keeper for the Central Experimental Farm, Heritage Ottawa Dr. Christina Cameron, Université de Montréal, and Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage Shirley Blumberg, CM, Fellow of RAIC Dr. Dan Pennock, Professor Emeritus, Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, and Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, [email protected] Robert Brinker, Carlington Community Association, Ottawa Serge Buy, CEO, Agricultural Institute of Canada [email protected] Warren A. Dick, Professor, Soil Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH [email protected]

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Mari Wesche, Professor (ret’d), University of Ottawa, National Capital Region Group Leader, Citizen’s Climate Lobby Canada, [email protected] Graham Saul, Ecology Ottawa Maja Krzic, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, and President Elect, Canadian Society of Soil Science [email protected] [email protected] Cathy Orlando, Citizens‘ Climate Lobby National Manager for Canada Dr. Les Lavkulich, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, [email protected] Barry Padolsky, B.Arch., M.Sc.Urban Design OAA, FRAIC, RCA, CAHP Deirdre Laframboise, BES, MES, Executive Director of the Canadian Climate Forum [email protected] Dr. Tom Pedersen, Chair of the Board, Canadian Climate Forum Sarah Rice, Chair, Ottawa Food Policy Council. Friends of the Farm Phil Mount, Project Soil, [email protected]

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