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Remembrance Day celebrated at the resting place of a giant…
I spent the morning in Toronto’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery at a Remembrance Day ceremony. When I was in Ottawa, I almost always went to the National War Memorial, mostly because I was covering it as a journalist.
In Toronto, I’ve gone to the provincial ceremony at Queen’s Park with it’s beautiful war memorial on the lawn.
Today’s ceremony, which drew several hundred people, was started by my friend John Wright and the people behind the Royal Canadian Air Force Foundation. John, who many of you would have seen quoted in media as a pollster over the years, but has also served as an Honourary Colonel.
The event followed the usual protocols with a reading of Flanders Fields, a bugler on The Last Post and Reveille and the Piper’s Lament.
And of course the Ode of Remembrance, the final lines of the poem For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
The monument in the photo above is the mausoleum at Mount Pleasant and is the final resting place of William George Barker, Canada’s most decorated service member having earned the Victoria Cross and a host of other medals.
He founded an airline with his friend and fellow flying ace Billy Bishop and was the first president of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Recently, the RCAF Foundation placed a statue honouring Barker in Toronto’s midtown.
Check out the Foundation’s website and learn a bit about Canadian military history and the scholarships the organization hands out.
The Sun did a good job of highlighting my Remembrance Day column inspired by the True Patriot Love Foundation’s gala that I attended last Friday.
Carney’s gamble with Canada’s auto sector…
Maybe you’ve heard about the Stellantis plant in Brampton being sold to defence firm Roshel. Turns out that despite denouncing the deal in public, Mark Carney and his team have been in on the deal from the begining.
I’m writing about that in my column for the Sun today and explaining the threat of allowing Chinese firms to build these knock-down kits. The experience elsewhere is that the Chinese firms quickly take market share but offer little in terms of jobs since all of the parts and most of the manufacturing is done in China.
From the column:
In 2021, Chinese-made autos accounted for less than 1% of European auto sales. It now stands at just shy of 10%. In Brazil, China went from 2% of the market in 2021 to 20% today.
Those are massive increases in market share, but they come at a price, one that Canadian workers might be paying soon.
With reports that Stellantis lease back and use part of the plant they are selling to build Chinese knock-down kits, everyone should be concerned.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford wrote to Prime Minister Carney this week to express his concern with this. I quote from the letter in my column.
Here’s Mark Carney reacting to the Stellantis deal on Tuesday.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre went to the gates of the plant and called for Melanie Joly, Carney’s industry minister, to be fired.
Chairman Carney would probably sell his mother for a handful of votes and a chance at the limelight. He is jeopardizing the whole country's economy to satisfy his ego and to please his puppet master... pathetic.
Biggest threat to Canada is Mark and its liberal regime