I'm glad you're my friend.
Thank you to our witnesses for joining us today.
Ms. Grant, thank you for listening to your father, for respecting, sharing and being able to remember the past to honour him.
To our guests who have served, thank you for your service.
I know my colleague Ms. Wagantall mentioned Saskatchewan. Since I'm from Moose Jaw, it's great that we outnumber Ontario here. We're grateful for your presence, and that's why we're mentioning it.
Ms. Grant, my uncle was from Jamaica. When I was growing up, Black and white...it was just my family. It wasn't until you experienced some of the comments that are made by outside people.... It's somewhat disgusting, in my opinion. I'm grateful that you're here to be able to share.
One of the things that we as Canadians have prided ourselves on is the underground railway. What you're sharing with us today in your testimony is that we may have prided ourselves on the underground railway, but afterwards there's some work to be done.
I'd like to touch a little bit on what you were sharing with regard to the American media and what you were saying about how the portrayal of Black people in the Canadian military isn't exactly what it is in our own hearts and minds. What are you doing to combat that and expose what really happened?