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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has travelled to Poland to take part in the commemoration services for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He will stand in the place where over 1 million Jews (of the six million Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust) were brutalized and systematically murdered in an industrial-scale death factory. It was place of horrors that was purpose-built to exterminate the Jewish people. The scale of atrocities committed against the Jewish people in the Holocaust at murder factories like Auschwitz-Birkenau must pose two fundamental questions: How did humanity allow such evil to exist, and how do we prevent it from ever happening again? Based on the alarming levels of anti-Jewish sentiment in Canada, these are questions Mr. Trudeau (and even more so, his governing partners in the New Democratic Party) appear to have deliberately ignored during his Liberal government's tenure, to dangerous effect ... CLICK HER...

I took these images, at the Canadian Military Museum in Calgary, several years ago ... Lest We Forget 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

Trudeau apologizes for Canada's 1939 refusal of Jewish refugee ship Steve Scherer   ~~   Reuters News   ~~   November 7, 2018 OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on Wednesday for the country’s 1939 refusal to take in a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, adding that the country would do more to protect Canadian Jews from violence. The St. Louis left Hamburg in May 1939 in a desperate search for a safe haven from persecution by Nazi Germany. After it was rebuffed by Canada and other nations, it returned to Europe, where historians have estimated that more than 250 of the passengers were murdered in Nazi death camps. CLICK HERE to read the full story Our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, seems unwilling to understand that he can only apologize for his own actions and behaviour. There is something ironic and hypocritical about apologizing for a Liberal Prime Minister w...