Mr. Speaker, last Sunday, in a ceremony attended by several hundred people, the Montreal Jewish community unveiled a monument to Canadian Jews who fought in the two world wars.
Members of the Jewish War Veterans of Canada, Branch 97 of the Royal Canadian Legion and the Combined Jewish Appeal, presented the memorial located outside Cummings House in Montreal. It is the first such monument open to the public in Canada. As a symbol of the important role of Jews in our Canadian Montreal history, the monument is engraved in French, English and Hebrew.
Some 17,000 Jews fought in World War II alone; 430 of them died for this country. Always we shall remember all Canadians, including our Jewish Canadians, who fought protecting our country's interests overseas.