Thank you.
Mr. Di Iulio, does the idea of a scholarship fund, which is part of what they are seeking to create, have anything to do with acknowledgement or commemoration of what's occurred?
I can tell you that my family grew up in northern Ontario. My grandfather was lucky to land a job at the Canadian Pacific Railway shortly after arriving in Halifax and he suffered extreme discrimination--extreme. They came here in 1927. When the war broke out, they were the Italian family in their town, and they were hated for it. My dad's name was Enrico Guiseppe. He changed his name to Hank, because he didn't want anybody to know he was Italian.
That was the kind of shame this action brought upon my family. But I fail to see how an endowment fund that would support a scholarship fund that would be arbitrarily decided by a board is going to do anything to acknowledge that what happened to families like mine was wrong.