First of all, with relation to the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument on Elgin Street in Confederation Park, the major ceremony that takes place at that monument each year is in June, on National Aboriginal Day, and there's usually a fairly substantial ceremony then.
There are over 6,000 cenotaphs and monuments across the country recognizing service and sacrifice of Canadians in wartime. It's not possible for all 6,000 to have ceremonies at them every Remembrance Day, so usually most communities have major events at selected sites and the others serve as silent reminders throughout the year of the service and sacrifice. The major event here in Ottawa, the largest one--there are a number of them, actually, that take place in the Ottawa area--is at the National War Memorial about three blocks further up Elgin Street. You're quite right. I don't think there is a formal wreath-laying ceremony at the Aboriginal Veterans Monument on November 11.
In terms of other communities, we do reach out to aboriginal communities through our regional staff in the Canada Remembers program, but in addition we've been quite pleased to see the number of aboriginal groups and aboriginal communities that are organizing remembrance activities, and we've seen an increase over the last number of years in the number of applications, for example, to the community engagement partnership fund to recognize aboriginal veteran contributions throughout the country. They have, of course, received support, and there's been quite an increase over the years.
We work as well with three national aboriginal veterans organizations, the National Aboriginal Veterans Association, the First Nations Veterans Association, and the Métis Veterans Association, and we include them in our overseas events, as you probably remember from some of your experiences, Mr. Stoffer.
As well, through these national organizations, we deal with their provincial and territorial groups and offer support to them as they would like.