(LifeSiteNews) — Today we celebrate Remembrance Day, as it is called in Canada, also celebrated as Armistice Day in the Commonwealth and Veteran’s Day in the United States.
Regardless of nation, it is today that we call to mind the harrowing time of World War I, an era that brought Europe to her knees and saw the dawn of a new balance of powers internationally.
The point of this piece is not to debate the goodness or badness of any particular nation or side during The Great War, and there will be no historical or geopolitical opining.
Instead, it is my intention to consider the fool who runs my nation in contrast to the heroes who shed their blood with the crimson of the Red Ensign and Maple Leaf.
Presently, Justin Trudeau is at a conference in Cambodia where he will discuss international economics with a group of globalists – what else is new. This means that the prime minister will not be in Ottawa for the first fully open Remembrance Day ceremony since 2019. He encouraged the segregation and isolation of millions of Canadians due to his fanaticism for a virus, and decided to be absent for a day that brings Canadians together with patriotism in their hearts.
But, don’t worry, he recorded a cringe-worthy canned message that was released by a staffer on Twitter.
To the women and men who have served our country, to those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and to those who wear the uniform today: Thank you. We are forever grateful. #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers https://t.co/kz1UnDkrNd pic.twitter.com/0mlSaF6B72
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) November 11, 2022
As always, the legacy media came to his defense, with David Akin – who heckled Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre in a Jim Acosta re-enactment – tweeting that former Prime Minister Harper had also been abroad on November 11 a couple of times.
Whereabouts of PMs on Remembrance Day
PM Harper
2006-09 – OTTAWA
2010 – SEOUL, KOREA
2011 – OTTAWA
2012 – HONG KONG
2013-15 – OTTAWAPM J Trudeau
2016-17 – OTTAWA
2018 – PARIS
2019-21 – OTTAWA
2022 – Phnom Penh, Cambodia— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) November 10, 2022
However, the comparison cannot apply, as Harper visited international locations where Canadian soldiers had fought and died alongside men from other Commonwealth nations.
Trudeau, however, is rubbing shoulders with globalists while his nation remembers the men who fought for everything he is tearing down.
We should not be surprised, however, as Trudeau is the embodiment of the woke global leader who stands as a sign of hatred for the past and disdain for patriotism.
We might call to mind how his government used emergency powers to crush the Freedom Convoy, a movement with significant veteran involvement.
We could also mention how under his watch, veterans with combat-related mental illness are being encouraged to commit suicide.
In addition, federal policing agencies and the military have been embroiled in disastrous scandal and are now finding it hard to recruit anyone – but they still persist in jab mandates as they parrot the propagandistic will of their leader.
Lest we forget
Despite the dark times in which we live, and the idiocrasy that Justin Trudeau lords over, Canadian history is filled with some of the bravest and most patriotic soldiers you will ever find.
Many may not know the extent of Canadian military prestige. But, even as early as the Boer War in South Africa, Canadians have been known as rugged and unflinching military men, with a resolve only built in nation with such a rough climate and terrain.
When the Commonwealth entered into the Great War, Canada was there as a young nation, sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers, experiencing hundreds of thousands of casualties.
The sacrifice that so many Canadians made was all the more profound given the small population of the nation, spread out over a land more expansive than the United States.
Difficulties notwithstanding, Canadians mobilized in record time and produced some of the greatest heroes of the war.
One of those heroes was Arthur Currie, whom a British historian described as “the most successful Allied General and one of the least well known.”
During the Hundred Days Offensive (August-November 1918), Currie and the Canadian Corps played a vital and decisive role in a series of successful Allied attacks that forced an end to the war, at an enormous cost with over 45,000 Canadian casualties.
There are countless others who could be mentioned, but you will not hear Trudeau remember those great heroes today, or likely any other day, that is unless he can dust off his make up and do some play-acting.
We are the dead
For Trudeau, the Canada of old is dead, or at least must die.
He does not want us to be reminded of virtue and honour and courage, as these things get in the way of identify politics, virtue signaling and wokeness.
But, no matter what Trudeau wants, the legacy of this nation will not die an everlasting death, like his political career will before he leaves this earth to be judged.
Like all those soldiers who died in battle or from wounds received therein, one day Trudeau’s life will end, and he will stand before the Judge as the man who sullied the reputation of the nation that was built largely by their heroism.
We would all do well to pray for his soul.
In addition, we would all do well to call to mind that fateful poem written by John McCrae, In Flanders Fields.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
