I guess our primary concern—and we've experienced this here in Ottawa as well at the national Remembrance Day ceremony—is with stores downtown opening up. We've come to a deal with the stores downtown, the business association in the city, and city council as well, to make sure no stores will open until after, I think, 12 o'clock in the city, because of the observance of Remembrance Day ceremonies. We feel that making things statutory holidays is going to whittle away the real significance of the day and people taking that time to remember.
I go back to when we reinstituted the two-minute wave of silence across the country. We started in St. John's, Newfoundland. In days gone by, there was always two minutes of silence, but because of our time-crunch society, we went to one minute. Quite a few years ago, we went back to the two minutes of silence. We started in St. John's, Newfoundland, and we rolled it out across the country, through all the provincial capitals. People would again become aware of the significance of remembrance.
We've just spent 10 years in Afghanistan with 158 casualties, so it's more relevant today to younger Canadians than it ever has been in the past. When I stood on parade, I always thought about my grandfather's generation. My father was standing by for the Korean War. To me, those were veterans. Today, it's a younger generation, and there's a whole new resurgence of remembrance that's come up because it is younger Canadians now. Bringing people home along the Highway of Heroes has also had an impact on Canadians. We send people across and overseas to do our various biddings, and we have to pay tribute to them. We have to bring them home that way.