Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are no panels up other than the plaque that is inset in the ground in front of the tomb. In fact, having interpretive panels around the site is something the Legion had brought up a number of years ago. We had initial discussions with Canadian Heritage, but we did not pursu

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are feelings of condemnation, anger, disgust and bewilderment that people would not understand what these memorials stand for.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's interesting when you talk about freedom, especially with what we see in other parts of the world right now, and how ironic it is that freedom could be misinterpreted in the way that it was. It is unfortunate, however, that the individual who was dancing on the tomb was full

Veterans Affairs committee  The Legion did not agree with those barricades being taken down, but it was interesting. When we put out that statement on February 12, the response that we had back was split. Half of the people we heard from supported the Legion's position of not taking those barricades down be

Veterans Affairs committee  I am aware of that provision, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's an important question, but a difficult one to answer. It should be inherent in everyone that you absolutely don't do these things that we have witnessed of late, yet there has to be some kind of protection afforded to memorials when actions go beyond what they should be. T

Veterans Affairs committee  There should be a different way of dealing with it. Back in 2006, when a gentlemen was caught urinating on the National War Memorial, he didn't receive a financial penalty for his infraction. However, there was a day of restorative justice. He came to Legion headquarters. He spo

Veterans Affairs committee  That is a very important question and you hit it right on the head. We have to make sure that these memorials are protected, but we cannot be so restrictive that we prevent public access to them. How do you accomplish that? The Legion and I would not want to see anything permanen

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for the invitation to the Royal Canadian Legion to appear before you today. I am Steven Clark, national executive director. I am a veteran and I also served for 10 years as the director of Canada's national Remembrance Day ceremony held at the Nati

Veterans Affairs committee  That is so important. In advance of last year's remembrance period, we asked all of our provincial commands to gather information from their branches about what they were doing and how they were remembering. We put all that information on our website. We shared it through what's

Veterans Affairs committee  It was our pleasure.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  I know that a number of years ago there was a national repository of memorials across the country that was gathering pictures and information so that people would know where they were and who was maintaining them or had the responsibility for it. I do not know the state of play f