CHA Secretaries / Secrétaires de la SHC

Abstract

Historical commemoration was, once again, a hot topic at Congress this year, and with good reason. Less than a year aft er the federal government unveiled its War of 1812 monument on Parliament Hill, work is already underway in downtown Ottawa for a new National Holocaust Monument and a Memorial to the Victims of Communism. The latter’s political nature is hard to miss – as a means to condemn the left in general, as an attempt to appeal to Ethno-Cultural voters who lived through communist regimes, and to permanently entrench, both literally and figuratively, conservative and free-market capitalist values in the nation’s capital. Architects, locals, Ottawa City Council, and even the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada have all voiced their dismay.