Veterans Affairs committee  Why don't I start because I'm sure that I'm the smallest? We're probably dealing with 300 or 400, but we're trying to ramp that up to 1,000-plus.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  For five years.

Veterans Affairs committee  I've had a French national say the same thing to me, and then he paused and he said this twice. I mean his family had been overrun twice and he couldn't understand why the Canucks had come over twice. It's what we do; it's our responsibility.

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the programs mentioned is Lest We Forget. The kids haven't forgotten; they just haven't learned it to start with. They can't forget something they don't know about. We're doing a poor job of teaching the kids our history. I think we do a very poor job of conveying, in the

Veterans Affairs committee  I am too, because I haven't seen any yet. In other words, this is the first year we've taken anything other than through the formalized application process. We have on our board pedagogues who are experts at this sort of thing, and they've told us that we're discouraging many bri

Veterans Affairs committee  That's probably something these two gentlemen could discuss. We only have so many students going over, but perhaps that's something that could become part of the program that you have, Dave. Or maybe it is already. I don't know.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thanks. You're right, the ball is rolling, and I hope we can keep up with it. We've been pushing this thing for the last five years. Now it's starting to roll, and that's good news. This is not about empire-building on our behalf. If we got everybody in the country to know about

Veterans Affairs committee  I think as a nation that's changing. We've seen what happened at the Olympics and how people got wrapped up in flag waving and pride in our athletes. Again, for the record, I want to make sure that I don't in any way dismiss or minimize what is being done on November 11. That's

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the requirements of the Beaverbrook Vimy Prize is that we'll only accept winners in grades 10 and 11. We want them to be returning students. When they return to their high school, they're required to make a presentation to the school. We ask that they make presentations on

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. My name is David Houghton, and I'm the president of the Vimy Foundation. Our mission is to preserve and promote Canada's First World War legacy as symbolized by the victory at Vimy Ridge in April 1917, which is often revered and considered a milestone in our history a