Canadians who take part in peacekeeping missions around the world will now have a day of honour in Ontario.
Attorney General Michael Bryant today declared Aug. 9 to be Peacekeepers' Day in the province, eliciting applause from the legislature as he made the announcement.
On that day in 1974, nine Canadians died when their plane was shot down over Lebanon. It was the single largest loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history.
August 9th has been honoured for sometime by the Canadian Forces as Peacekeepers Day and there are public ceremonies held in other provinces to commemorate Canadian Peacekeepers though I concur that it is high time that Ontario decided to get on board. Call me ungrateful, but I wish the Canadian Press would get the story straight. The 9 Canadian peacekeepers were killed when Syria fired missiles at their plane over Syria, not Lebanon.
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