Mr. Speaker, Italian Heritage Month has arrived in Canada. Today on June 2, Italy celebrates the 75th Festa della Repubblica and the founding of the Italian Republic.
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Buona Festa della Repubblica a tutti.
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Here in Canada, we proudly celebrate and share our Italian heritage, as well as our vast contributions to building this country we are blessed to call home.
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Ma anche quest’anno, rispettiamo e onore il passato. Il 27 maggio, il nostro Primo Ministro ha presentato
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the formal apology for Italian Canadians interned during the Second World War.
This Italian Heritage Month, I wish to honour the resilience of these immigrants who endured so much.
As the Prime Minister stated:
What better way to prove that they loved the country they had chosen to call home. It would have been so easy to turn their backs on Canada. Instead, they put their backs into building it.
Happy Italian Heritage Month.
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