Thank you, Mr. Kerr, and thank you, committee members.
My name is Lloyd Swick, and for the last three years I've been with a small committee working towards putting up a monument in Confederation Park dedicated to the animals that served our forces and also the Allied forces in war. It's a subject that must be talked about. Many other countries, such as Britain, Belgium, Australia, and New Zealand, have seen such a need. We have been lackadaisical in this matter.
Three years ago Peter Stoffer and I dropped in at the NCC and proposed that we have such a monument. Madam Lemay was in the chair. She supported it to the extent that if it could bring an aspect of national interest to our capital, then they would support it.
The fact that we have an unveiling on November 3 at 10:30 in Confederation Park shows that we met the mandate. This is a story that must be told, and I think I can best tell it to you by relating a story about one battle, the Battle of Passchendaele. Does anyone know the story of Passchendaele?