Veterans Affairs committee  That's a really good question. I haven't thought about it in exactly those terms. It is very difficult to draw a connection between an online activity with people in one area and a commemorative activity in another. I don't have any evidence or analysis that I can draw on for t

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, and some of it goes back a number of years. There was a spectacular television ad from Bell Canada some years ago, where a young man was walking on the beach in Dieppe talking on his cellphone. He called his grandfather, who had been a veteran of the Dieppe raid, to say tha

Veterans Affairs committee  We actually have a program that provides for the marking of unmarked veterans graves. As part of our funeral and burial program, we work with the Last Post Fund corporation, which delivers the program for us. They have an unmarked graves program as part of their activities. If

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. In fact, a major part of our efforts for quite a number of years has been encouraging and supporting the recognition of modern-day veterans. Our mandate covers the full gamut. The only exception to that is that the Department of National Defence has retained responsib

Veterans Affairs committee  No. It is only in the section on federal programs. Only federal contributions are considered government contributions under the terms of this program.

Veterans Affairs committee  For projects that we can fund, we provide up to 50% of the cost of the cenotaph to a maximum of $50,000. Does that answer your question?

Veterans Affairs committee  Our work with the private sector does not include providing any contributions to them. Our funding programs are exclusively directed to the not-for-profit sector and community groups. However, we encourage the private sector to use their own resources to take on a leadership role

Veterans Affairs committee  Otherwise, it's been stable. In fact, there have been some increases to the grant that we provide to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to take care of the fluctuating exchange rates and also the increased costs in the 134 countries, I believe it is, in which there are Common

Veterans Affairs committee  That was in 2004–05.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's certainly been a great help, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I can. First of all, statutory holiday designation for November 11 is a provincial jurisdiction. I believe eight of the provinces have November 11 as a statutory holiday. One of the provinces has it as a statutory holiday but not in all circumstances. It sort of crosses the

Veterans Affairs committee  Not really. There has been a very strong response right across the country. The variations we have per capita are not very significant. I don't think I can attribute that to whether or not it's a statutory holiday in the province.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. Last year we did something that we had never done before. In Montreal we projected a virtual poppy field on the side of the Bell Centre, home of the Montreal Canadiens, my team—

Veterans Affairs committee  —and we invited Canadians to text a particular number. When they did that, a poppy grew in the virtual poppy field in this massive projection on the side of the building. We've been looking into how we could do that again this year, and not just there, because hopefully we can

Veterans Affairs committee  You mentioned the Facebook pages. That is probably the most successful innovation we've had in the last while. Again, it's just under two years old. Next week it will be two years old. What we have there are thousands of Canadians expressing their own thoughts. They're posting to