Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to respectfully say that the act before us today is about creating a public, country-wide monument to commemorate a very dark chapter in the history of humanity. Indeed, this event was an especially difficult event that touched many of our fellow Canadians through what happened to their families, their friends, and their colleagues. It was an event that touched so many Canadians across the whole country. It is important that a national monument commemorating it be a truly national and public project that should be taken care of by the public. In other words, it should be fully taken care of by the Government of Canada, which is representing those Canadians. That's exactly what is true. Otherwise, another community will come and they will try to build their own monument, and a third community will come.
There are many dark chapters in history in many communities. I can talk about the Sikh community. You know, it's very coincidental, in June 1984—