I'll try to give you a short picture. My comment is not intended to demean any race or any nationality in our country. I took my wife, when I got re-married, over to Holland and showed her a cemetery outside my hometown where some 2,700 Canadians are interred, and she was quite taken by the way it was maintained. I showed her a number of cemeteries in the Netherlands and in Belgium. As we were driving back to where I was born, we were close to the German border and we went into Germany and she asked me whether the Germans had similar commemoration sites. I had to tell her no. She asked why not. I told her it was because they lost. They are properly interred, but their gravesites are replete with bizarre markings, probably because the people of the time were quite upset over what took place. I would expect the same. I've been to Japan. These cultural differences also exist in how people are buried and how they are commemorated. So I don't know how folks reach out to new Canadians. I know how they reached out to me. I've taken part in citizenship ceremonies and we take great pride in presenting our military history to them.
On November 17th, 2011. See this statement in context.