Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Amos. We did not get the allocation that so many of you advocated for, and I'd like to thank all of you for the efforts you made on our behalf. It was really, really wonderful to see, and it was excellent to be able to speak to each of you and to know that you took an interest in the drum that we're banging.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you so much, John. Yes, I'm happy to start. Our first, which will be Vimy 105, will be next year. It's hard to believe we're already five years out from the centennial.

Veterans Affairs committee  So was I. I was in a tent. I'd never want to go back to that tent, but it's hard to believe that we were there. Our 105 initiative is Vimy: A Living Memorial, which is a digital project. It is an app that will explore the Vimy site. We're working with the European operations team to do that.

Veterans Affairs committee  For now, yes. There's a program in Canada under the umbrella of the commemorative partnership program, which is designed to fund the renovation of second-class monuments, that is, small monuments, community monuments, and so on. This applies only to Canada. That's kind of the problem.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. Thank you so much, Mr. Casey. It wasn't really pointing out a problem specifically. It was more saying again that, for the European monuments, there's a kind of out of sight, out of mind mentality. My colleague Mr. Loveridge mentioned that the budgets are adequate in the short term, and I think that's a good point.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Ms. Blaney. I can speak specifically for our organization, with the Vimy Centennial Park and the Hill 70 Memorial. Both of these are large private sites that exist very close to the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Both organizations built them with the intention of continuing to maintain them.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your question, Mr. Desilets. I'm thinking of the idea already mentioned by Ms. Dromaguet. Even though we are in Canada and many Canadians aren't directly connected to the great wars, the military or veterans, we all have a relationship to war and the experience of war.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, John. I appreciate it. Speaking for us, I think the importance of long-term investments in partners is fairly top of mind. We're all working together to try to achieve commemoration. We're all exterior partner organizations that help VAC do the work that needs to be done.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee and my commemoration colleagues, it is my pleasure to be here today with you discussing the future of commemoration in Canada. The Vimy Foundation has worked tirelessly since 2006 to provide new and meaningful ways for Canadian youth to engage with the memory of the First World War through experience-based learning, classroom resources and scholarships.