The state’s estate: Devaluing and revaluing ‘surplus’ public land in Canada

• Published in: Environment and planning. A Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 505 - 526
• Main Author: Whiteside, Heather
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2019
• Subjects: Canada Lands Company; Accumulation by dispossession; surplus land; privatization; devaluation and revaluation

Since the mid-1990s, Canadian public real property (land, buildings, and equipment) has been subject to regular scrutiny through bureaucratic procedures aimed at ridding the state’s estate of all ‘surplus’ properties. Surplus is transferred to Canada Lands Company, a state owned enterprise charged w...