Election 2021: what will the parties sacrifice for veterans?

Whatever party governs after election day, Canadians will need to be engaged. The best vehicles to involve Canadians on veterans’ issues are to hold either nationwide public hearings or strike a judicial inquiry with a sweeping mandate.

Veterans, pictured on Nov. 11, 2020, laying a wreath at the National Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SEAN BRUYEA

September 16, 2021

OTTAWA—Typically, the sacrifice of Canadian veterans has been invoked on Remembrance Day and sometimes during an election. Far less frequent is remembering the other side ...

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