Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman.
I mentioned earlier Guy Gruwez. We have new members on this committee and we have some substitutes. If you'd just indulge me for a minute, I can give you a bit of background on this gentleman.
Mr. Gruwez is the honorary chair of the Last Post Association in Belgium, and he served as the chair for 40 years.
For almost 80 years, members of the Last Post Association have been responsible for what I would have to call a remarkable ceremony that honours those Canadians who fought and died in Belgium in the First World War. Every night at sunset, without fail, before hundreds of local citizens and tourists, members of the association play the Last Post at the Menin Gate Memorial.
Listed on the memorial are the names of 7,000 Canadians who gave their lives in the Great War and who have no known grave. That's what this is all about.
If you're not familiar with the Menin Gate and ever have an opportunity as an individual or a member of a committee to visit it, I would strongly suggest that you do. The time I was there.... There's a huge open dome at the top of this facility, and literally thousands of poppies floated down during the Last Post. I'm just talking about it now and every hair on the back of my neck is standing up.
So if you ever get an opportunity and you want to see how grateful other countries are for Canadians, the brave men and women who served in the war, that's something you'll never forget.
Thank you for that indulgence.