“We re-commit today to those shared values because they support the stability and prosperity of our nations and our people. The Allied invasion of Normandy involved nearly 150,000 troops – including 14,000 Canadian soldiers — who stormed ashore into German machine gun fire. World leaders will continue the commemorations in Normandy on Thursday, including at Juno Beach, the eight-kilometre stretch of coastline where the Canadians came ashore. In Beny-sur-Mer, just inland from the beach, Payette joined a parliamentary delegation at the Canadian War Cemetery to pay tribute to the fallen. “Conflict is the result of our collective failure,” Payette told the gathering at the cemetery, where more than 2,000 Canadian soldiers who died in the Battle of Normandy are buried.

Source: National Post June 06, 2019 02:37 UTC