Veterans’ Sacrifice Is Why Canada Is Free, PM Says on Remembrance Day

Published on November 11, 2024

Veterans were led by the sound of drums and bagpipes as they made their way to the National War Memorial, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon marked Remembrance Day and thanked fallen soldiers for protecting Canada’s freedoms. “We stand today, free and at peace, because of them,” Trudeau said in a Nov. 11 statement noting the service of Canadian soldiers in the first two world wars and in Afghanistan. He said veterans and members of the military have kept Canadians safe “throughout every chapter of our history.” The prime minister said some soldiers never returned home from the battlefield, whereas others returned “never truly the same.”...

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