Canadian Heritage committee  I have one final word, Mr. Chair. Every generation has the responsibility to write our history and to study and teach and share our history. What has happened in the last generation, as you know, is that we have instant access to everything across Canada with social media, with

Canadian Heritage committee  For example, I worked with our Legion in this province, most recently at a ceremony when the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. gave a national historic person recognition to Padre Nangle. He built the Beaumont-Hamel monument and our war memorial here in St. John's. Th

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. If I may, I would interpret the word “legal”, as you've drafted it here in proposed subsection 3(1), proposing a legal holiday—and I stand to be corrected, please—as meaning a holiday established by statute, because you asked about “statutory”. Statutes of Canada say

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree. Yes, I think changing would help. It gives it prominence. It gives it an importance and a weight—or I can use the word “gravitas”—that it deserves, and that our history and our duty to remember and honour our veterans and those who put themselves in harm's way even today

Canadian Heritage committee  It's simply that they grow on the graves of the Newfoundland soldiers in France. They were among the first of the memorial flowers to be adopted, along with, of course, the poppy, but they have a tremendous significance to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador and they are reco

Canadian Heritage committee  I certainly will. I guess I would like to leave the impression with the committee that my culture, community, my province and country, are saturated with the history and the need to remember the sacrifice of Canadians in the wars. I think it's very important, even down to this

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Indeed, I am wearing a forget-me-not. Perhaps I can speak about that after my comments, if one of your members of Parliament would wish to ask me a question. Thank you for your kind invitation to speak. First I would like to make a brief com