Retired Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve, accepting a top defence award Nov. 9 in Ottawa, also took a swipe at leaders who he claimed divide rather than unite. While not specifically naming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or Hillary Clinton, Maisonneuve said “can you imagine a military leader labelling half of his command as deplorables, fringe radicals and less-thans and then expect them to fight as one?”We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.
Chaired by Richard Wagner, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Trudeau’s national security advisor Jody Thomas, the Vimy Gala bills itself Trudeau has apologized to students of residential schools as well as to Indigenous groups for the abuses and deaths that occurred in that system. He also apologized for Canada’s decision in 1939 to reject asylum for 900 German Jews fleeing the Nazis, of which 254 died in the Holocaust.Article content
The Vimy gala event was held at the Canadian Museum of History with a backdrop of the world’s largest collection of totem poles, created by Indigenous peoples.“Canada’s prosperity is being sacrificed at the altar of climate change as opposed to being used to help the world transition to clean energy,” he added.